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[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago (6 children)

No closing semicolon, anyone got any extras to throw on this thing?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

; found this in the back for you should still work though

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Can confirm.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

At the very least I'd try to clean up that fuzzy condition on behavior to anticipate any bad or inconsistent data entry.

WHERE UPPER(TRIM(behavior)) = 'NICE'

Depending on the possible values in behavior, adding a wildcard or two might be useful but would need to know more about that field to be certain. Personally I'd rather see if there was a methodology using code values or existing indicators instead of a string, but that's often just wishful thinking.

Edit: Also, why dafuq we doing a select all? What is this, intro to compsci? List out the values you need, ya heathen ;)

(This is my favorite Xmas meme lol)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

behavior is an ENUM.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

That’s a table scan, right there. Naughty.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Need to normalize the database. I would add a join to a BehaviorTypes table.

Edit: or, if the only options are naughty or nice, make it a boolean.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Honest question, which ones wouldn't it work with? Most add a semicolon to the end automatically or have libraries and interfaces saved me a million times?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Other reply s accurate but it's always a good practice to include the semicolon else you can get

"Bobby tables'ed" look that xkcd comic up

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how including a final semicolon can protect against an injection attack. In fact, the "Bobby Tables" attack specifically adds in a semicolon, to be able to start a new command. If inputs are sanitized, or much better, passed as parameters rather than string concatenated, you should be fine - nothing can be injected, regardless of the semicolon. If you concatenate untrusted strings straight into your query, an injection can be crafted to take advantage, with or without a semicolon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yep it would only work if you didn't sanitize a user input string in this case 'nice'

They could write ''; drop table blah;

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You need semicolons if it is a script with multiple commands to separate them. It is not needed for a single statement, like you would use in most language libraries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you don't use a semicolon directly in MySQL it won't do anything until you add it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Can we get a SIMILARITY?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That SELECT and WHERE are all caps, but from is not is bugging me.

I don't care if you choose to uppercase keywords or lowercase, but consistency please.

Also, great, love it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

it also implies that naughty or nice is an either or thing and not a weighted thing from an incidents table. the good place lied to us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It could be a materialized view that is generated off of a weighting where you are nice until you have a certain number of incidents.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Guess that settles the debate, we got to pronounce it "sequel" then to optimally match syllables

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

Uuugghhh noooo! Ess Kyoo Ell!! ESS KYOO ELL!!! brandishes flaming pitchfork!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Squirrel works too though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The Australian pronunciation works… “squi-rell”. Common American one is somehow just one syllable, “Skwurl”

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes but he serves a different community

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Sequel to what?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

dammit bobby tables is on the naughty list again

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

wait until it hits little bobby tables...

https://xkcd.com/327/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He drops when you are sleeping. He drops when you’re awake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum A new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pum Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum To lay before the King, pa rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

So to honor Him, pa rum pum pum pum, When we come.

Little Bobby, pa rum pum pum pum I am a poor boy too, pa rum pum pum pum I have no gift to bring, pa rum pum pum pum That's fit to give the King, pa rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

Shall I play for you, pa rum pum pum pum, On my unsanitized database inputs?

...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

I can't be the only one disappointed by the lack of an order by clause after being told the list was being sorted (twice!)...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Query OK, 0 rows affected

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Can anyone recommend a cheap receipt printer that takes pictures from a pc or phone? I want to print mtg tokens on the fly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Gameboy Pocket. Gameboy Camera. Gameboy Printer.

Both the perfect balance of “nostalgia” and “ridiculous”.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was reading that to the tune of the chorus of The Distance by Cake. It worked until the last line.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

He sees you when you’re bashing

He’s hacked your VPN

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He knows you're not in the sudoers file

So he'll report your ass again

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I'll be damned if that's not the most relevant xkcd that I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The beginning maps perfectly to "The Distance" by Cake and I was singing along to that tune as I read.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Love it keep em coming

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I started this in my head sounding like the singer from Cake.

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