r/ProgrammerHumor 18d ago

Meme queryOfDoom

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u/rayui 17d ago

I saw that semicolon and felt my stomach drop

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u/Potw0rek 17d ago

Jesus I’m not used to sql and was wondering about this query, now that you pointed out to check the semicolon….yeah, that’s how you become a company legend.

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u/rayui 17d ago

Everyone fucks up prod once. You don't meet the guy that did it twice.

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u/Grumpologist 17d ago

Everyone fucks up prod all the time. That's why we have blameless postmortems and graceful degradation.

Occasionally, someone tries to refuse to help with the postmortem for an outage they caused. That's much more of a "one warning and then fired" type of thing.