Using short-lived tokens to authenticate Python applications to CockroachDB
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CockroachDB TIL: Volume 10
*This is my series of articles covering short "Today I learned" topics as I work with CockroachDB. Today, we're covering Previous articles Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7 Volume 8 Volume 9 Volume 10 Topics Topic 1: [Generating ULID strings in CockroachDB](#Topic 1: Generating ULID strings in CockroachDB) Topic 2: Enable CLI tab completion for column names Topic 1: Generating ULID strings in CockroachDB CockroachDB adopted ULID several releases ago as yet another version of UUID type. There is no explicity ULID type in CockroachDB. There are functions available to generate ULID in UUID format. So in case you need to generate lexicographically sortable IDs, you can use the built-in gen_random_ulid() function and there are a several conversion functions to convent from ULID to UUID i.e. ulid_to_uuid and vice versa, i.e. uuid_to_ulid . One point of friction in CockroachDB exists where one needs to generate an actua...