• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Christ, if you could see the abysmal efficiency of business tier SQL code being churned out in the Lowest Bidder mines overseas…

    Using a few terrabytes of memory and a stack of processors as high as my knee so they can recreate Excel in a badly rendered .aspx page built in 2003.

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      2 hours ago

      We have a table with literally three columns. One is an id, another a filename and a third a path. Guess which one was picked as the primary key?

      Never seen something so stupid in 28 years of computing. Including my studies.