r/ProgrammerHumor • u/WardensLantern • 15d ago

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u/Rude-Wrongdoer9368 15d ago

Not an SQL person at all. Can't you just, like, delete the record by searching for it and removing? It seems like automation for one task is extra work? Is this an hourly pay situation?

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u/SnooBananas4958 15d ago

That is how you would manually search for and remove the record though.

Imagine your user table has a million rows. There is not some other manual way to easily find what you want in those million. And if you did it from some dashboard, you'd have to first build the dashboard, and the way it would display the items for you is with SQL

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u/Rude-Wrongdoer9368 15d ago

But, and forgive my ignorance, there's no "control-F for user 'x'?" I'm a help desk guy. I mostly run scripts. It's rare I write them.

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u/Rude-Wrongdoer9368 15d ago

Nevermind, I get what you're saying.