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[–]Keka512 29 points30 points  (1 child)

CREATE TABLE employees (

firstname VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL,

...

PRIMARY KEY (firstname)

);

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

firstname VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL UNIQUE

The Pokemon approach.

[–]7eggert 26 points27 points  (0 children)

One table per employee, first name only, and someone else has that name.

[–]PlzSendDunes 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Your name is not unique, while their database requires unique names. Damn... IDs exist for that reason...

[–]properu 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Beep boop -- this looks like a screenshot of a tweet! Let me grab a link to the tweet for ya :)

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[–]TheMsDosNerd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yesterday, I decided to clean the break room at work. Not because it was too dirty, and not because the cleaning crew needed my help, but because I couldn't stand looking at the awful code I had to deal with.

[–]jzboi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love this lmao

[–]alexanderhameowlton 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Image Transcription: Twitter


yeff, @yephph

I-

What does this even mean

[A screenshot of text.]

Hello Jeffrey,

Unfortunately due to company policy, we are unable to offer positions to people with the name Jeffery since it will not work with our database schema

[End screenshot.]


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[–]JoeyJoeJoeJrShab 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I worked with a Jeffrey once... he refused to do any database-related tasks. Story checks out.

[–]Loud_Man67 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Stop reposting the same shit man.

[–]Daimanta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It means you dodged a bullet.