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Santa Is Too Professional

Databases Security Programming

11 days ago 85.1K views 0 shares

Santa Is Too Professional

Little Tim tried to pull a classic SQL injection attack on Santa's naughty/nice database. The kid renamed himself to "Tim'); INSERT INTO [NiceList] SELECT * FROM [NaughtyList];--" hoping to move everyone from the naughty list to the nice list. But Santa's not some rookie DevOps elf. He proudly runs his global gift operation on "several dozen interconnected Excel spreadsheets, like a professional." The ultimate enterprise solution that's immune to SQL injection because it's too chaotic to be hacked. This is why North Pole IT has 364 days of downtime every year. They're still recovering from last Christmas.

One Man Show

AI Programming Databases

22 days ago 95.9K views 0 shares

One Man Show

The corporate data science dream team standing around watching one guy with Excel do all the actual work. Classic case of "we hired seven specialists with fancy titles to stare at a hole while the person who's been using VLOOKUP since 2003 actually solves the problem." This is why your company's $2M data infrastructure still ultimately feeds into someone's spreadsheet that crashes every third Thursday. The Excel guru probably makes half what the AI consultants do, but knows where all the bodies are buried in your database.