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Message-ID: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAA0BKn9uKnWEeCDU7Vx+IAQ8KAAAAQAAAAdFozwz9EIkGZJRdVLvdn/QEAAAAA@online.gateway.strangled.net> Date: Tue Jul 5 05:16:59 2005 From: aditya.deshmukh at online.gateway.strangled.net (Aditya Deshmukh) Subject: alert: the 111111 bug > > I noticed one of my customers using the "special" date of 11/11/11 in > their database. These sort of shortcuts are frequently taken by the programmers or the DB admins after the whole system has been setup :) > For this customer 11/11/11 in the date field means, don't process > this record, which will obviously cause problems with legitimate > transactions on that date. This becomes a part of the site's folklore that every new admin/programmer has to learn to prevent chaos@. ________________________________________________________________________ Delivered using the Free Personal Edition of Mailtraq (www.mailtraq.com)
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