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[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

That's the employer's fault for making it so easy to connect to prod with read-write permissions. Not your fault.

[โ€“] peter@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At my last job I was given write permissions to production and I asked for read only credentials instead, I know my own stupidity

[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 1 points 11 months ago

At my workplace, the command-line database tool (which is essentially just a wrapper around the standard MySQL CLI) connects with a read-only role by default, and you need to explicitly pass a flag to it to connect with a read-write role. The two roles use separate ACLs so we can grant someone just read-only access if they don't need write access.

[โ€“] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

+1

We have read only access.

Also transactions are good ideas.

Also my database tool (the one built into pycharm) warns and requires you to hit submit a second time if you try a delete or update without a where. Discovered this on local where I really did want to update every record, but it's a good setting.

[โ€“] chahk@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Look at mister fancy pants over here with a database tool. Back in my time we had to use Query Analyzer uphill both ways.

[โ€“] chahk@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Oh there was plenty of blame to go around. I wasn't exactly fresh out of school either. I had "extensive experience with SQL Server" on my resume by then.