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Designing APIs for humans: Object IDs - DEV Community

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Choosing your ID type Regardless of what type of business you run, you very likely require...

Choosing your ID type Regardless of what type of business you run, you very likely require a database to store important data like customer information or status of orders. Storing is just one part of it though; you also need a way to swiftly retrieve the data – which is where IDs come in. Also known as a primary key, IDs are what you use to uniquely specify a row in a table. When designing your table, you want a system where your IDs are easy to generate, unique and human readable. The most simplistic approach you might take to IDs when using a relational database is to use the row ID, which

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