Thank God for foreign keys Posted on June 2, 2016 By Liquid Egg Product 4 Comments on Thank God for foreign keys Computer-fu Almost fat-fingered deleting important data in a production database. (More like fat-brained, really) Foreign key prevented the disaster. So exhausted.
Oh wow. Would deleting that data mean more work for you (do it again) or no more work for you (fired)? Reply
@Q: It would have been quite serious. I would have needed to restore from backup and attempted to recreate the deleted data ASAP. I can’t be fired…it’s my company! @Annie: This is the exact reason I no longer use “regards” 😉 Reply
Oh wow. Would deleting that data mean more work for you (do it again) or no more work for you (fired)?
yeah. watch the ‘t’ and ‘g’ keys when attempting to end an email with ‘regards’. just sayin’.
@annie, lol
@Q: It would have been quite serious. I would have needed to restore from backup and attempted to recreate the deleted data ASAP. I can’t be fired…it’s my company!
@Annie: This is the exact reason I no longer use “regards” 😉