Write Where First

Write Where First
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Somewhere in the multiverse, SQL decided that letting you accidentally nuke your entire database was just too entertaining to prevent. That's why UPDATE and DELETE statements don't require a WHERE clause—they just strongly suggest it.

It's like SQL is that friend who hands you a chainsaw and says "try not to cut your leg off" instead of giving you safety training. The number of junior devs who've learned this lesson by wiping production data is probably higher than the number of semicolons in their codebase.

And yet, decades later, we're still teaching this lesson on classroom projectors instead of fixing the language. Classic tech industry solution: "Let's document the problem instead of solving it!"

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