OK, so I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t matter what the situation, and how many times I look it over… I ALWAYS get a strange feeling when I am about to delete content from a Database.
I have deleted records, tables, etc from Databases countless times over the years, so you might think I’d be OK with it, but oh no, there goes the heart palpitations and the uneasy stomach (not a full blown panic attack… I’m not in need of therapy here… at least not for this). I seriously don’t know what the big deal is, why is my body stressin’ out?
I can write, and re-write the DELETE statement over and over and over again, never changing a thing, but I still get hesitate when I make the final “Executioner’s Click” (read: hitting F9 on my keyboard via HeidiSQL)
Why is that? I mean, I back up the table, I back up the DB (no matter what the size… 1gb of database records takes a while to backup I might add), I delete the records. Simple.
Apparently not so simple, given the uneasiness it causes. Of course it’s over now, cause I’ve done it and all is well, but … WTH!
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I’m kinda the same way. And I delete stuff at work all day long. Every time I hit the final confirmation button, I think my heart skips a beat.
Of course, I have deleted things I shouldn’t have. On a few occasions. It’s probably linked to that.
Did that once a short while back and took out a good portion of my daughter’s blog (I was supposed to be installing it again after a move).
The little stink told me after I about crapped my pants that she had a backup on her server. She thought it was funny. I thought it was the worst thing I’d done.
Real proud she listened to her ‘ol Dad about backing things up way back when.
BTW, hiya Jay!