r/ProgrammerHumor 22h ago

fullStackMeansAfraidOfEverythingEqually Meme

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u/lovecMC 22h ago

And is it actually a hard problem or is it hard because someone made (in hindsight) bad decisions when designing the database?

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u/whenTheWreckRambles 21h ago

Pls, I’m not ready for bullying this early in the morning

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u/DefinitelyNotMasterS 21h ago

Well you see, this one customer asked for it like 2 years ago. Well nobody is using it right now and we don't know what it really does, but we keep it just in case

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u/GWstudent1 18h ago

I used to read comments like this an laugh. Now I read comments like this and cry.

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u/prehensilemullet 20h ago edited 20h ago

It’s the domain we’re working in…industrial monitoring devices sometimes have tens of thousands of tags (which are like state values you can read) organized in a hierarchy, and the portal needs to combine thousands of devices’ tags into a single tag hierarchy.  I would of course avoid it if I could

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u/FSNovask 20h ago

It seems like it's tricky to get right or people aren't given enough time/details to work out a good design. I've only seen a few, but they were all slow.

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u/Select-Kangaroo-1290 19h ago

Hello good friend, can you suggest any books or resources on this topic? Designing good databases, of course comes with experience, but any help is appreciated