How to generate unique integer IDs across multiple systems?

This article show to generate unique integers across environments. Generally repeating IDs in different environments are not a problem, but once in a while you need to migrate something from dev to staging, or from staging to production.

Nov 30, 2004 · Updated Apr 20, 20128.6k00100Article

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