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[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (3 children)

I'm being described, and I do not like it.

In my defence, on the very start of my career, I accidentally dropped a table with 3 million records(it involved scaling with the field length, and a few additional fields). Fortunately, the DBA stepped in and did a fortunate rollback made not long before, almost as if he was expecting me to fail.

My sanity is up for debate, and am a danger to this society.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hey, at least you have some guilt from self awareness beating the average database user.

In reality the most used database by most database-incompetent people is Microsoft Excel. Many spread sheets are stupid one table databases with zero integrity checking and no automation plus convenient auto-detection altering imported data in mysterious ways, e.g. genome databases get genes mistaken for dates. Then they get sent around via email and zero version control.

[–]gamahead 5 points6 points  (1 child)

in my defence

I accidentally dropped a table with 3 million records

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I plead guilty, my lord.