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I accidentally removed the WHERE clause from my SQL query in a personal tool. Every row is now the same. I overwrote 206,000+ rows. I have no backup, I am stupid. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by drekly@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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"UPDATE table_name SET w = $1, x = $2, z = $4 WHERE y = $3 RETURNING *",

does not do the same as

"UPDATE table_name SET w = $1, x = $2, y = $3, z = $4 RETURNING *",

It's 2 am and my mind blanked out the WHERE, and just wanted the numbers neatly in order of 1234.

idiot.

FML.

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[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

this folks, is why you don't raw dog sql like some caveman

[–] drekly@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Me only know caveman. Not have big brain only smooth brain

[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yep. If you're in a situation where you have to write SQL on the fly in prod, you have already failed.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Me doing it for multiple years in a Bank....Uhm...

(let's just say I am not outting my money near them... and not just because of that but other things...)

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

it's time to commit sqlpukku

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tell that to my former employer...

[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I swear it's part of the culture at some places. At my first full-time job, my boss dropped the production database the week before I started. They lost at least a day of records because of it and he spent most of the first day telling me why writing sql in prod was bad.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But the adrenaline man... some of us are jonkies of adrenaline but we are too afraid of anything more of physically dangerous...

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

You may be interested in suicide linux then. it's a distro that wipes your entire hard drive if you mistype a command

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Raw dog is the fastest way to finish a task.

productivity
risk

It's a trade-off

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's no way you're endorsing the way OP handled their data right?

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

No, but people are sometimes forced to do these things because of pressure from management and/or lack of infrastructure to do it in any other way.

Definitely don't endorse it but I have done it. Think of a "Everything is down" situation that can be fixed in 1 minute with SQL.

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Got it. I'm with you.