title: MySQL Workbench Auto-generate UUID for primary key
body: <p>How can I configure my table in MySQL Workbench to auto generate a UUID on INSERT?</p>
  
  <p>I have set the column as VARCHAR(128), PK, NN, G with the default expression as UUID(). When I create a record the ID is 'UUID()'.</p>
  
  <p>How can I get the database to generate UUID's automagically on INSERT? All the examples I see are auto-increment but UUID's are character strings so I can't use auto-increment.</p>