this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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[–] luckystarr@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Aww, you didn't normalize.

This is just perfect.

[–] ShrimpsIsBugs@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can physically feel the pain in the first one

[–] Bonehead@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

And that's why every single update or delete statement should start life as a select statement before manually and purposely changing "Select" to something else.

Source: 20 years of IT experience. I only ever made this mistake once...but it was a doozie...

[–] lavafroth@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

The first one is reminiscent of Tom Scott's Onosecond.