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Sometimes, it's backwards (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah, I love people who stick SQL lookups in a For Loop. Even better, the coder who puts conditional if (but no then/else) clauses around a dozen raw text execution commands that fire in sequence. So you're making six distinct lookups per iteration rather than answering your question in a single query and referencing the results from memory.

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