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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by mcfedr on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @02:24AM (#24695203)
If they had used the newer format, we'd be talking about this in a few weeks time when the larger limit was reached.

This is a problem of bad coding, and using the wrong tool for the job.

A defensive coding practice would have prevented this from going unseen. Using a database to store data would have prevented such arbitrary limits.

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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by rossdavidh on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:39AM (#24697539)
Yeah, something like "Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by using spreadsheet instead of database", would be more accurate.
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