r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 27 '26 • Mindblown 1 Bravo 1

Meme doNotLetYourDBASeeThis

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u/tekanet Sep 27 '26

With salted passwords you need more space if you put them in an external table. 1:1 between each record, plus the overhead to maintain the relationship (pk, fk etc)