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I unknowingly reset serial number counters in a bicycle part's database, so now there are a few hundred people in the world with high end bike hubs that overlap
by schmichael 13y ago
I unknowingly reset serial number counters in a bicycle part's database, so now there are a few hundred people in the world with high end bike hubs that overlap each other.
Lesson: Keep the code that touches production databases as simple as possible so it's easy to verify exactly what it does. I was using a framework's database tooling incorrectly because I never dreamed what I used would touch the databases's counters.
(Not my worst mistake in terms of people affected, but it's the only mistake that was literally laser etched in metal forever.)
- tadfisher 13y agoChris King?
- schmichael 13y agoI plead the fifth.
- tadfisher 13y agoWe should grab a beer sometime :)