What data type is recommended for ID columns?

Question

I realize this question is very likely to have been asked before, but I\'ve searched around a little among questions on StackOverflow, and I didn\'t really find an answer to

Answer 1

I asked a similar question which has a few answers that might help. Replication seems to be the biggest advantage of using GUIDs.

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