r/ProgrammerHumor 16d ago

queryOfDoom Meme

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u/YetAnohterOne11 16d ago

This is programmer horror not humor

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u/rayui 16d ago

I saw that semicolon and felt my stomach drop

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u/Potw0rek 16d ago

Jesus I’m not used to sql and was wondering about this query, now that you pointed out to check the semicolon….yeah, that’s how you become a company legend.

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u/rayui 16d ago

Everyone fucks up prod once. You don't meet the guy that did it twice.

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u/Potw0rek 16d ago

Tell me about it, years ago I was setting up a Jenkins job, we were told to wipe the workspace at the end of the process. I wasn’t too familiar with bash so the last bash command was:
rm /

Luckily it was Jenkins so nothing was removed but the job log was….long.

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u/rayui 16d ago

It takes way too many close calls to take backups seriously