RAW_TO_UUID

Syntax


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RAW_TO_UUID converts the input argument uuid_string into canonical format of 36 bytes which consists of 32 hexadecimal bytes and 4 hyphens. uuid_string must be of datatype RAW(16).

If the input is NULL, it returns NULL.

Example

 SELECT RAW_TO_UUID(UUID()) FROM DUAL;

The output is:

RAW_TO_UUID(UUID())
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81f9b934-5028-4f8c-bf05-f082e9b72e0f