How many ways are there to sort GUIDs?

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But the GUID structure itself groups them into four fields, one of which is an array. If you treat the GUID as an array of 16 bytes, then you can sort them with , which is a lexicographical sorting by bytes. SQL sorts GUIDs by breaking the stringified version into groups, sorting groups right to left, and sorting bytewise within each group.

Source: devblogs.microsoft.com