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Created February 6, 2014 13:08
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sql-unique-column-values.sql
/* Generate unique values with the UUID() function. */
UPDATE table SET column = UUID();
/* Optionally strip the hyphens from the values. */
UPDATE table SET column = REPLACE(UUID(), '-', '');
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