UUID
- A UUID (universally unique identifier) is a statistically unique identifier
- It looks like this:
60f9496b-621c-48d8–8cba-1ebdd866a030
- There are more possible UUIDs than there are grains of sand on Earth
- It is 128-bit value expressed as 32 hexadecimal characters plus dashes for
readability
- A GUID (globally unique identifier) is what a UUID is called in the Microsoft.