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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/sql
 

I am one of the developers on a very small team and have just found the following query

I would love to hear your ideas for what you think was being attempted here!

SELECT ... FROM client WHERE CAST(ABS(SIN(clientId)) AS BIT) = 0

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I'm not that sturdy with SQL functions, but my understanding is this:

Get the client ID, and use that as input to a sine function to get a new number. Then get the absolute value of this number. Then you cast this as a bit, and you end up selecting all clients who through this lovecraftian horror ends up as 0.

Why?? I have no idea. It looks to me like they want only to select a subset of clientIDs, but with something that is hard to predict but with the same result every time for the same clients.