The Nuclear Option: A Database Tragedy

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Looks like someone forgot to handle their price exceptions in production. That electronic shelf label is just screaming "null null" where a price should be - the digital equivalent of a store clerk throwing their hands up and saying "I have no freaking idea what this costs anymore." Even the database is feeling the economic crisis. Can't afford to store actual values these days, just pointers to nothing. Somewhere a backend developer is getting a frantic call while pretending they didn't see the Slack notification.

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You know you've committed a cardinal sin when even your fellow inmates want nothing to do with you. Using Excel as a database is like bringing a spoon to a knife fight – technically it works, but everyone's judging you. We've all seen it: some product manager or business analyst proudly managing 50,000 rows of "critical production data" in a shared Excel file on OneDrive. No version control, no data validation, no foreign keys, just pure chaos and merged cells everywhere. And don't even get me started on the inevitable "Excel_Final_v2_FINAL_USE_THIS_ONE.xlsx" situation. The prisoner's crime is so heinous that even hardened criminals recoil in horror. Murder? Acceptable. Tax evasion? Understandable. But Excel as a database? That's where society draws the line.

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Content Karen Kringle KarenMN 2 Follow He's making a database He's sorting it twice SELECT from contacts WHERE behavior 'nice' SQL Clause is coming to town RETWEETS 3,960 LIKES 2,920 5:02 AM - 16 Dec 2015