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Aihua Xu commented on HIVE-12721: --------------------------------- You can't have such unit test. Maybe it's good to verify the length of the code = 36 and the values regenerated every time will be different. > Add UUID built in function > -------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-12721 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12721 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: UDF > Reporter: Jeremy Beard > Assignee: Jeremy Beard > Attachments: HIVE-12721.patch > > > A UUID function would be very useful for ETL jobs that need to generate > surrogate keys. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)