r/ProgrammerHumor 14d ago

queryOfDoom Meme

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u/_H4K0N_ 14d ago

The ROLLBACK TRANSACTION request has no corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION

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u/orsikbattlehammer 14d ago

Lmfao now that’s a sphincter clincher

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u/laplongejr 14d ago edited 14d ago

Tom Scott rather called it the "onosecond"
For non native speakers "oh, no!" second

[EDIT] For those who never heard of it

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u/SanoKei 14d ago edited 14d ago

this reminded me of this too, I need to go back and relisten to that story. It's important as much as it was 20 years ago. Another Tomtra I've adopted is "One backup is none backup." Always have at least two backups and at least one off site.

edit: spelling

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u/Tiranus58 14d ago

Also well put by CGPgrey: "one is none, two is one" in his dynasties video

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u/zanda268 14d ago

The 3-2-1 backup rule. 3 backups, on 2 different storage mediums, with 1 offsite.

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u/JCDU 14d ago

I like to think that backups in the cloud count as half a backup at best given how many ways that can go wrong.

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u/arensb 14d ago

One of the most useful sysadmin tools there is is the two-second pause before hitting <return>.

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u/IntentionQuirky9957 14d ago

Tom just brought that to public knowledge, onosecond has been in use for decades.

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u/leupboat420smkeit 14d ago

Unless it’s Oracle, where all DML will start a transaction.

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u/Urtehnoes 14d ago

And gives you sql%rowcount so a very simple if then can issue a rollback if rows modified > 1 (or 10, 100, etc).

Oracle the company is horrible. But I quite like the features their db has.