I hate programming, why did I choose this field.

https://lemmy.ml/post/16742521

I hate programming, why did I choose this field. - Lemmy

TL;DR: Stupid mistake, made by hours waste. Basically, I was extracting date from the SQL db, and it was not displaying. I tried everything, heck I even went to chatgpt, and copilot. Two and half hours of trying every single thing under the sun, you know what was the issue? SELECT task, status, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id I FUCKING FORGOT TO ADD ‘date’ TO THE DAMN QUERY. TWO AND HALF HOURS. I was like, “Ain’t no way.” as I scrolled up to the query and there it was, a slap in the face, and you know what was the fix? SELECT task, status, date, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id Moral of the story, don’t become a programmer, become a professional cat herder instead.

You didn’t add the date field to your query and couldn’t work out why it didn’t return the missing field for over 2 hours?

Perhaps SQL isn’t for you as things get waaaaay more finicky than that.

it’s indeed a new language for me and I haven’t developed that ability to know where the bug is happening but I am going to get there.

Yeah don’t beat yourself up - when you are new to SQL it fucking let’s you know.

It’s easy to get distracted thinking about all the ways shit fits together., where you could have just gone wrong. And now, next time, you’ll know.