diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6acc775..821b59c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1868,6 +1868,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "time",
  "tokio-stream",
  "url",
+ "uuid",
  "webpki-roots",
 ]
 
@@ -2228,15 +2229,6 @@ version = "1.16.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "497961ef93d974e23eb6f433eb5fe1b7930b659f06d12dec6fc44a8f554c0bba"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "ulid"
-version = "1.0.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "13a3aaa69b04e5b66cc27309710a569ea23593612387d67daaf102e73aa974fd"
-dependencies = [
- "rand",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "unicase"
 version = "2.6.0"
@@ -2308,6 +2300,16 @@ version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "711b9620af191e0cdc7468a8d14e709c3dcdb115b36f838e601583af800a370a"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "uuid"
+version = "1.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d023da39d1fde5a8a3fe1f3e01ca9632ada0a63e9797de55a879d6e2236277be"
+dependencies = [
+ "getrandom",
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "valuable"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -2454,8 +2456,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "tower-http 0.4.1",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber",
- "ulid",
  "unicode-segmentation",
+ "uuid",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5fcd935..d2654a4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ justerror = "1"
 password-hash = { version = "0.5", features = ["std", "getrandom"] }
 rand = "0.8"
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
-sqlx = { version = "0.6", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio-rustls", "any", "sqlite", "chrono", "time"] }
+sqlx = { version = "0.6", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio-rustls", "any",
+"sqlite", "chrono", "time", "uuid"] }
 thiserror = "1"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full", "tracing"], default-features = false }
 tokio-retry = "0.3.0"
@@ -31,9 +32,9 @@ tower = { version = "0.4", features = ["util", "timeout"], default-features = fa
 tower-http = { version = "0.4", features = ["add-extension", "trace"] }
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
-ulid = { version = "1", features = ["rand"] }
 unicode-segmentation = "1"
 rand_distr = "0.4.3"
+uuid = { version = "1.4.0", features = ["serde", "v4"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 axum-test = "9.0.0"
diff --git a/src/db_id.rs b/src/db_id.rs
index 24ba42d..3a27eef 100644
--- a/src/db_id.rs
+++ b/src/db_id.rs
@@ -1,48 +1,34 @@
-use std::{
-    borrow::Cow,
-    fmt::{Debug, Display},
-};
+use std::fmt::{Debug, Display};
 
 use chrono::Utc;
-use serde::{de::Visitor, Deserialize, Serialize};
-use sqlx::{
-    encode::IsNull,
-    sqlite::{SqliteArgumentValue, SqliteValueRef},
-    Decode, Encode, Sqlite,
-};
-use ulid::Ulid;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+use uuid::{Error, Uuid};
 
-#[derive(Default, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
-pub struct DbId(pub Ulid);
+#[derive(
+    Default, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash, sqlx::Type, Serialize, Deserialize,
+)]
+#[sqlx(transparent)]
+pub struct DbId(pub Uuid);
 
 impl DbId {
-    pub fn bytes(&self) -> [u8; 16] {
-        self.to_be_bytes()
-    }
-
-    pub fn to_be_bytes(self) -> [u8; 16] {
-        self.0 .0.to_be_bytes()
-    }
-
     pub fn is_nil(&self) -> bool {
         self.0.is_nil()
     }
 
     pub fn new() -> Self {
-        Self(Ulid::new())
+        Self(Uuid::new_v4())
     }
 
-    pub fn from_string(s: &str) -> Result<Self, ulid::DecodeError> {
-        let id = Ulid::from_string(s)?;
-        Ok(id.into())
+    pub fn from_string(s: &str) -> Result<Self, Error> {
+        Ok(Self(Uuid::try_parse(s)?))
     }
 
     pub fn as_string(&self) -> String {
-        self.0.to_string()
+        self.0.simple().to_string()
     }
 
     pub fn created_at(&self) -> chrono::DateTime<Utc> {
-        self.0.datetime().into()
+        chrono::DateTime::default()
     }
 }
 
@@ -62,153 +48,14 @@ impl Debug for DbId {
     }
 }
 
-impl From<Ulid> for DbId {
-    fn from(value: Ulid) -> Self {
+impl From<Uuid> for DbId {
+    fn from(value: Uuid) -> Self {
         DbId(value)
     }
 }
 
 impl From<u128> for DbId {
     fn from(value: u128) -> Self {
-        DbId(value.into())
-    }
-}
-
-//-************************************************************************
-// sqlx traits for going in and out of the db
-//-************************************************************************
-
-impl sqlx::Type<sqlx::Sqlite> for DbId {
-    fn type_info() -> <sqlx::Sqlite as sqlx::Database>::TypeInfo {
-        <&[u8] as sqlx::Type<sqlx::Sqlite>>::type_info()
-    }
-}
-
-impl<'q> Encode<'q, Sqlite> for DbId {
-    fn encode_by_ref(&self, args: &mut Vec<SqliteArgumentValue<'q>>) -> IsNull {
-        args.push(SqliteArgumentValue::Blob(Cow::Owned(self.bytes().to_vec())));
-        IsNull::No
-    }
-}
-
-impl Decode<'_, Sqlite> for DbId {
-    fn decode(value: SqliteValueRef<'_>) -> Result<Self, sqlx::error::BoxDynError> {
-        let bytes = <&[u8] as Decode<Sqlite>>::decode(value)?;
-        let bytes: [u8; 16] = bytes.try_into().unwrap_or_default();
-        Ok(u128::from_be_bytes(bytes).into())
-    }
-}
-
-//-************************************************************************
-// serde traits
-//-************************************************************************
-impl Serialize for DbId {
-    fn serialize<S>(&self, serializer: S) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error>
-    where
-        S: serde::Serializer,
-    {
-        serializer.serialize_bytes(&self.bytes())
-    }
-}
-
-struct DbIdVisitor;
-
-impl<'de> Visitor<'de> for DbIdVisitor {
-    type Value = DbId;
-
-    fn expecting(&self, formatter: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        formatter.write_str("16 bytes")
-    }
-
-    fn visit_bytes<E>(self, v: &[u8]) -> Result<Self::Value, E>
-    where
-        E: serde::de::Error,
-    {
-        match std::convert::TryInto::<[u8; 16]>::try_into(v) {
-            Ok(v) => Ok(u128::from_be_bytes(v).into()),
-            Err(_) => Err(serde::de::Error::invalid_length(v.len(), &self)),
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn visit_string<E>(self, v: String) -> Result<Self::Value, E>
-    where
-        E: serde::de::Error,
-    {
-        DbId::from_string(&v)
-            .map_err(|_| serde::de::Error::invalid_value(serde::de::Unexpected::Str(&v), &self))
-    }
-
-    fn visit_str<E>(self, v: &str) -> Result<Self::Value, E>
-    where
-        E: serde::de::Error,
-    {
-        DbId::from_string(v)
-            .map_err(|_| serde::de::Error::invalid_value(serde::de::Unexpected::Str(v), &self))
-    }
-
-    fn visit_byte_buf<E>(self, v: Vec<u8>) -> Result<Self::Value, E>
-    where
-        E: serde::de::Error,
-    {
-        let len = v.len();
-        match std::convert::TryInto::<[u8; 16]>::try_into(v) {
-            Ok(v) => Ok(u128::from_be_bytes(v).into()),
-            Err(_) => Err(serde::de::Error::invalid_length(len, &self)),
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn visit_seq<A>(self, mut seq: A) -> Result<Self::Value, A::Error>
-    where
-        A: serde::de::SeqAccess<'de>,
-    {
-        let mut raw_bytes_from_db = [0u8; 16];
-        let size = seq.size_hint().unwrap_or(0);
-        let mut count = 0;
-        while let Some(val) = seq.next_element()? {
-            if count > 15 {
-                break;
-            }
-            raw_bytes_from_db[count] = val;
-            count += 1;
-        }
-        if count != 16 || size > 16 {
-            let sz = if count < 16 { count } else { size };
-            Err(serde::de::Error::invalid_length(sz, &self))
-        } else {
-            Ok(u128::from_be_bytes(raw_bytes_from_db).into())
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for DbId {
-    fn deserialize<D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<Self, D::Error>
-    where
-        D: serde::Deserializer<'de>,
-    {
-        deserializer.deserialize_bytes(DbIdVisitor)
-    }
-}
-
-//-************************************************************************
-// serialization tests
-//-************************************************************************
-
-#[cfg(test)]
-mod test {
-    use serde_test::{assert_tokens, Token};
-
-    use super::*;
-
-    #[test]
-    fn test_ser_de() {
-        let bytes: [u8; 16] = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15];
-        let id: DbId = u128::from_be_bytes(bytes).into();
-
-        assert_tokens(
-            &id,
-            &[Token::Bytes(&[
-                0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
-            ])],
-        );
+        DbId(Uuid::from_u128(value))
     }
 }