this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
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[–] [email protected] 90 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Just rollback the transaction. Wait, you were running under a transaction right...

[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Transactions are for people that make mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago

My first "real job" during college was a a large document management software vendor. Overheard a support call:

"Okay: delete from documents whe... what do you mean 'oops'?"

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Dropping 250,000 rows from a production database and having to call the senior after hours, in tears, is a right-of-passage that everyone goes through. Right? ...right?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

Nope, rows.

That was a typo. Which probably explains why I dropped 250,000 rows from the database to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Oh, little Bobby...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Could also have had some chairs as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

No time for that just yolo it