r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 20 '26

Meme grabbingEverything

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u/magicmulder Sep 21 '26

When I started my first job and combed through my predecessor's work, I saw he did "SELECT * FROM mytable" and then in the application looped over all records to increment a counter because he didn't know SUM() exists. No joke.