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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev

Title before edit: I hate programming, why did i choose this field

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.

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[-] Redacted@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's partially right but led OP down the wrong lines of thinking because it interpreted the prompt as a date field being missing rather than the field named date being missing.

Tbh I don't blame it too much here as there is kind of a base level of understanding requred to use it successfully.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

No. In what way is "If you have a column named foo add it to your query" wrong?

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