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Re:A terrible schema from a clueless programmer by msqlqthrowaway on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:55AM (#29140471)
> all major databases do these days

Did everyone on HN miss that the database in question was whichever version of MySQL existed in 2002?

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Re:A terrible schema from a clueless programmer by mst on Sunday November 07, 2021 @01:40PM (#29142168)
Which I was using in production at the time, and, yeah, what she ended up doing was a much better plan for that thing.
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Re:A terrible schema from a clueless programmer by jeremyjh on Sunday November 07, 2021 @01:45PM (#29142213)
It actually doesn't matter. Even simple indexes would have made that schema work just fine, and MySQL could certainly index strings in 2002.
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