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The experience that made me hate programming, but that's all on me (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title before edit: I hate programming, why did i choose this field

TL;DR: Stupid mistake, made by hours waste.

Basically, I was extracting date from the SQL db, and it was not displaying. I tried everything, heck I even went to chatgpt, and copilot. Two and half hours of trying every single thing under the sun, you know what was the issue?

SELECT task, status, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id

I FUCKING FORGOT TO ADD 'date' TO THE DAMN QUERY. TWO AND HALF HOURS. I was like, "Ain't no way." as I scrolled up to the query and there it was, a slap in the face, and you know what was the fix?

SELECT task, status, date, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id

Moral of the story, don't become a programmer, become a professional cat herder instead.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (33 children)

You didn't add the date field to your query and couldn't work out why it didn't return the missing field for over 2 hours?

Perhaps SQL isn't for you as things get waaaaay more finicky than that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Seriously. If this broke him it gets so much worse.. but honestly op, this is how you learn what to do and what not to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I know that, my anger has manifested this post, and I shouldn't have criticized the entire field

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I think anyone who's been in the field for long enough knows you weren't really slamming all of it. Beaking off is totally okay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Fair play. SQL is pretty different from traditional programming and errors often aren't very descriptive.

You'll need to get very familiar with fields you have included or not in your queries when using more advanced stuff like group functions as including or excluding them can alter the number of rows returned.

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