Produces a random universally unique identifier (UUID) as a
STRING value.
GENERATE_UUID
GENERATE_UUID()
Description
Returns a random universally unique identifier (UUID) as a STRING.
The returned STRING consists of 32 hexadecimal
digits in five groups separated by hyphens in the form 8-4-4-4-12. The
hexadecimal digits represent 122 random bits and 6 fixed bits, in compliance
with RFC 4122 section 4.4.
The returned STRING is lowercase.
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