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Re: Are Airtable Record IDs unique across Tables? Across Bases?

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Roman_Scher
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

I’m curious to know if record IDs like reciw1K6rcYbpRN0o are unique for a table, unique for a base, or unique across bases for an organization.

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Kasra
9 - Sun
9 - Sun

Hi Roman,

They are currently globally unique, but you shouldn’t count on this being the case in the future. We may change them to only be unique within a base, so it would be best to always store the base ID (begins with app) alongside the record ID in external systems.

Roman_Scher
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

Thanks Kasra!

Is it correct then that record IDs are never reused within a base, even after records are deleted?

That’s generally true, but we can’t guarantee that outside of your plan’s data retention period.

cgarv16
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

hey @Kasra it would be great if we could access the base ID from within a formula function to allow for creating a globally unique record ID