Is GUID good?
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A GUID is a globally unique identifier for a database. There is much interest lately in using the GUID for a table’s surrogate key. For example, Bob the Customer could be uniquely identified by the GUID value‘6A603133-2280-4D24-83CB-59AFCDF52297’.
What are the pros and cons of using a GUID for a surrogate key?