On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:42 -0700, Steve Meyers wrote:
> Chris Carey wrote:
> > My last DOH moment was when writing some SQL statements and I forgot
> > the WHERE clause ...
> > 
> > DELETE FROM billing;
> > 
> > instead of
> > 
> > DELETE FROM billing WHERE id=123;
> 
> Use the --i-am-a-dummy flag:
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/safe-updates.html

Or use a database that supports transactions and do dangerous things
inside a transaction.

<aside>I've had a chance to insult emacs and mysql in the same day.
That's what I call a good day!</aside>

<mumble>Man I miss the good ole' days when emacs really was more bloated
and MySQL really wasn't a real database.</mumble>

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