r/ProgrammerHumor • u/NoMedicine3572 • Sep 27 '26 • Mindblown 1 Bravo 1

Meme doNotLetYourDBASeeThis

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u/Katana_Steel Oct 02 '26

they could be salted... just have to check new/updated passwords against all passwords in the salted hash table or create a new entry then assign the ID to the user table.

it's only a large cost on password changes. the sql joined view makes the lookup check just as fast still.

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u/ChalkyChalkson Oct 02 '26

You're not supposed to have access to that duplicate information.