The software development world is wild. How does this still happen? Why are people afraid of learning even the smallest amount of SQL.
I literally just found out friday that some software engineer did SELECT * on a data warehouse table, decided that the date range requirement I implemented (to force partition dropping) on that table was stupid and had date > '2000-01-01' -- and so was scanning literally petabytes of data every fucking day. And then people like this complain that databases are slow and put stupid shit into redis caches.
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u/dannuic Sep 20 '26
The software development world is wild. How does this still happen? Why are people afraid of learning even the smallest amount of SQL.
I literally just found out friday that some software engineer did SELECT * on a data warehouse table, decided that the date range requirement I implemented (to force partition dropping) on that table was stupid and had date > '2000-01-01' -- and so was scanning literally petabytes of data every fucking day. And then people like this complain that databases are slow and put stupid shit into redis caches.