UUIDs look random… but they aren’t. Every UUID encodes its version directly in the bits, and you can extract it easily in […]
Read MoreOrdering and indexing by time with UUIDv7
In our previous tip, Generate UUIDv7 in YSQL, we showed how to generate UUIDv7 values directly in YugabyteDB YSQL and use them […]
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UUIDv7 is a newer UUID variant designed for modern, distributed systems. Unlike UUIDv4 (fully random), UUIDv7 embeds a Unix timestamp (milliseconds) in […]
Read MoreExploring Tablet Placement with yb_tablet_metadata
In a distributed SQL database like YugabyteDB, understanding where data actually lives is just as important as understanding the schema itself. Once […]
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