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guid

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Editorial note

Now you have a guid column & a uuid column and people are going to get even more confused.

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Quick take

Alternative form of GUID.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of guid gathered in one view.

noun

Alternative form of GUID.

noun

(computing) Acronym of globally unique identifier.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for guid.

noun

Alternative form of GUID.

noun

(computing) Acronym of globally unique identifier.

Example sentences

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Now you have a guid column & a uuid column and people are going to get even more confused.

2

I create a guid on the client, and send this with the request.

3

> just discovered the 'guid' column on the posts table is hardcoded as the URL of the post It comes up every so often.

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Imagine how cool it would be if I could share a guid for my repo - and then your bit client (let's call it gitcoin, or maybe just bit) can fetch new commits from a distributed block chain (essentially the git log).

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One slight tweak would be to do a "retry" using the guid, but the server knows to send result of last success if the guid matches a completed transaction.

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You can deprecate "guid", but you can't get rid of it.

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Spaz was a big fan of guids because they were globally unique, but then he made a "guid" that was all zeroes and argued about that.

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The "guid" field sometimes changes when the content hasn't changed.

Quote examples

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One slight tweak would be to do a "retry" using the guid, but the server knows to send result of last success if the guid matches a completed transaction.

2

You can deprecate "guid", but you can't get rid of it.

3

Spaz was a big fan of guids because they were globally unique, but then he made a "guid" that was all zeroes and argued about that.

4

The "guid" field sometimes changes when the content hasn't changed.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use guid in a sentence?

Now you have a guid column & a uuid column and people are going to get even more confused.

What does guid mean?

Alternative form of GUID.

What part of speech is guid?

guid is commonly used as noun.