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Karthik Appigatla
Karthik joined Percona in September 2014 as a Remote DBA. His duties include handling remote DBA operations and collaborating closely with the team to evolve the RDBA offering. Karthik has 6+ years of experience in database administration. He began his career with Yahoo! as a Service Engineer (DevOps) and slowly converted into a MySQL DBA. After working for close to 5 years at Yahoo!, he moved to Pythian as a Database Consultant and got promoted to Lead Database Consultant. He holds certifications from RedHat (RHCSA & RHCE), Oracle (MySQL-5.5 OCP) and MongoDB (10GEN Certified DBA & Developer) Originally from the holy city Tirupati (India), recently relocated to Hyderabad(India) after marriage. Karthik plays cricket, chess and caroms during free time.

Storing UUID Values in MySQL

Dec 19, 2014 | MySQL

Please note, a more up-to-date follow-up post is here: Storing UUID and Generated Columns A few years ago Peter Zaitsev, in a post titled ““There is timestamp based part in UUID which has similar properties to auto_increment and which could be used to have values generated at the same point in time physically local in BTREE […]