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Little Timmy Tables (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by andioop@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why are we using magic strings for behavior?

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Feel free to fork my comment.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 12 points 3 months ago

Does Santa accept PRs?

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

CREATE VIEW NiceList AS
 SELECT * FROM Children
  WHERE behavior > 2000
   AND parent.income > 40000; 
CREATE VIEW NaughtyList AS
 SELECT * FROM Children
  WHERE behavior <= 2000;

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's an ENUM and other people have to read this fucking codebase too, Brian!

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've a DBA who would insist on this being in a dimension table and using a foreign key constraint instead of just a fucking string

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago

I like your DBA!

Users probably don't.

[–] djmikeale@feddit.dk 10 points 3 months ago

He used to have an is_nice bool but consultants convinced Santa it isn't future proof enough to capture the nuances of kids behaviour in today's world, such as "nice but always is really smug about it". But the consultants kept making PowerPoints instead of updating the backend, so now Santa also has added a new value to behaviour: "consultant-like"