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Re:Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours by SoftTalker on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @01:04PM (#34151564)
Your database should not allow invalid values to exist. That is what check contstraints, foreign keys, NOT NULL constraints, etc. are for.
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Re:Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours by rini17 on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:20PM (#34152586)
If you're such a DBA, the rest of an enterprise will quickly route around you.
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Re:Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours by lmm on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @01:06AM (#34157978)
That's the attitude that causes these problems. Probably their date was set to 1/1/2000 because the database wouldn't allow them to not set a date.
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