The experience that made me hate programming, but that's all on me

MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml to Programming@programming.dev – 128 points –

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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Every bug is an opportunity to learn. Learn about the language, the code base or about yourself. Today you learned about yourself.

Agreed. Sorry for my post, it was written in frustration of the situation

I thought I was in programming_humor ngl. We’ve all been there friend