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Spent 3 weeks trying to fix a single line of code in our Phoenix office database
Our main reporting tool kept crashing, and I was sure it was a server issue. Turns out, one wrong SQL query was pulling way too much data and choking the system. I finally found it after checking over 200 scripts. Has anyone else had a tiny mistake cause a huge mess like that?
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grant46511d ago
Used to think all our system problems were software bugs until a power flicker last year. We lost a whole day of orders because a single network switch in the warehouse got unplugged during cleaning, just like @the_jason's crooked sensor. Now I make the team check the physical stuff first, every single time, before we even open a code editor. It saves so many headaches.
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the_jason11d ago
Yeah, that "tiny mistake causing a huge mess" thing hits home. We had a weird bug where a pallet scanner kept missing items, and it turned out someone just bumped the sensor a quarter inch out of alignment. Took us a full weekend of double checking the whole inventory system before we saw the physical thing was just crooked.
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