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		wantlotsofcurry on Jan 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I destroyed the company's DB (a stupid SQL mis... I never understood why there is no way to have a `dry-run` option on SQL operations. I feel like that would save so much time and dev anxiety.

geekodour on Jan 1, 2024 | [–]

You could start a transaction?

ref: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/223425/how-to-test-q...

revskill on Jan 1, 2024 | | [–]

Make all your API call have a dry-run parameter ?

AntonZ234 on Jan 1, 2024 | [–]

So true

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