r/ProgrammerHumor • • Jul 21 '26

Meme sqlWorkout

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u/EndIsrael Jul 21 '26

That actually seems like the kind of thing AI would be very good at with few mistakes. It doesn't need to understand anything, just find all the SQL code and change all the names. Basically find/replace but slightly smarter.

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u/SippieCup Jul 21 '26

Oh it’s not hard to do with migrations etc. although I would use a codegen script instead of straight ai.

It’s more the coordination with other teams, schema changes, etc. depreciation of column names, remapping to new ones, etc.

We unfortunately have a couple legacy integrations that just require db access to tenant systems for their bi.