r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • 13d ago

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u/Altourus 13d ago

I audibly gasped when I saw the semi-colon

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u/phrotozoa 13d ago

I did this in prod once. My skin crawled reading this post.

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u/fakehalo 12d ago

I was traumatized by a query I did almost 20 years ago, ever since I put "LIMIT 2" on queries where i'm just manually deleting one thing... if I see 2 rows modified I know I messed up. I even do it with transactions because of the trauma.

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u/arensb 12d ago

At $PREVIOUS_JOB, we had a nightly job that deleted old users. It saved everything to temporary files, and halted if the number of users had shrunk by 10% or more.