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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (6 children)

No closing semicolon, anyone got any extras to throw on this thing?

[–] epyon22 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

; found this in the back for you should still work though

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Can confirm.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

At the very least I'd try to clean up that fuzzy condition on behavior to anticipate any bad or inconsistent data entry.

WHERE UPPER(TRIM(behavior)) = 'NICE'

Depending on the possible values in behavior, adding a wildcard or two might be useful but would need to know more about that field to be certain. Personally I'd rather see if there was a methodology using code values or existing indicators instead of a string, but that's often just wishful thinking.

Edit: Also, why dafuq we doing a select all? What is this, intro to compsci? List out the values you need, ya heathen ;)

(This is my favorite Xmas meme lol)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

behavior is an ENUM.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That’s a table scan, right there. Naughty.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Need to normalize the database. I would add a join to a BehaviorTypes table.

Edit: or, if the only options are naughty or nice, make it a boolean.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need semicolons if it is a script with multiple commands to separate them. It is not needed for a single statement, like you would use in most language libraries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don't use a semicolon directly in MySQL it won't do anything until you add it.

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

In the MySQL client console where you can run multiple commands.

If you add semicolon in language library commands such as fetch() you will get an error.

[–] krotti 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honest question, which ones wouldn't it work with? Most add a semicolon to the end automatically or have libraries and interfaces saved me a million times?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Other reply s accurate but it's always a good practice to include the semicolon else you can get

"Bobby tables'ed" look that xkcd comic up

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how including a final semicolon can protect against an injection attack. In fact, the "Bobby Tables" attack specifically adds in a semicolon, to be able to start a new command. If inputs are sanitized, or much better, passed as parameters rather than string concatenated, you should be fine - nothing can be injected, regardless of the semicolon. If you concatenate untrusted strings straight into your query, an injection can be crafted to take advantage, with or without a semicolon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep it would only work if you didn't sanitize a user input string in this case 'nice'

They could write ''; drop table blah;

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Usually with libraries like jdbc or whatever and prepared statements you don’t need the semicolon.

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

Can we get a SIMILARITY?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Guess that settles the debate, we got to pronounce it "sequel" then to optimally match syllables

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Uuugghhh noooo! Ess Kyoo Ell!! ESS KYOO ELL!!! brandishes flaming pitchfork!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Squirrel works too though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Australian pronunciation works… “squi-rell”. Common American one is somehow just one syllable, “Skwurl”

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but he serves a different community

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sequel to what?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

dammit bobby tables is on the naughty list again

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

wait until it hits little bobby tables...

https://xkcd.com/327/

[–] JohnDClay 30 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He drops when you are sleeping. He drops when you’re awake.

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

Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum A new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pum Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum To lay before the King, pa rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

So to honor Him, pa rum pum pum pum, When we come.

Little Bobby, pa rum pum pum pum I am a poor boy too, pa rum pum pum pum I have no gift to bring, pa rum pum pum pum That's fit to give the King, pa rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

Shall I play for you, pa rum pum pum pum, On my unsanitized database inputs?

...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

I can't be the only one disappointed by the lack of an order by clause after being told the list was being sorted (twice!)...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Query OK, 0 rows affected

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can anyone recommend a cheap receipt printer that takes pictures from a pc or phone? I want to print mtg tokens on the fly.

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

Gameboy Pocket. Gameboy Camera. Gameboy Printer.

Both the perfect balance of “nostalgia” and “ridiculous”.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I was reading that to the tune of the chorus of The Distance by Cake. It worked until the last line.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The beginning maps perfectly to "The Distance" by Cake and I was singing along to that tune as I read.

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

Cut to Mrs Claus baking a spice cake:

She's all alone, all alone, in her time of spice

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He sees you when you’re bashing

He’s hacked your VPN

[–] jballs 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He knows you're not in the sudoers file

So he'll report your ass again

[–] SHBI7368 9 points 1 year ago

Love it keep em coming

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

I started this in my head sounding like the singer from Cake.

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