Jeremy M. Praay wrote:
> Working where I do, I've found quite a few WTF's myself.
> 
> In one of my recent favorites, the programmer had done a query like:
> SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS
> 
> Then he went through every single record (in a loop), until he found the 
> record that matched the value he was looking for, or hit the end of the 
> file.  Moreover, all he needed to return was the name.  Honestly, there is 
> absolutely no excuse for code like that.

There was one *precisely* like that the other day... let me find it...

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Rutherford,-Price,-Atkinson,-Strickland,-and-Associates-Dentistry,-Inc.aspx

Read it and weep.

Seriously, the fundamental purpose for a database to *exist* is exactly 
TO DO THIS STUFF FOR YOU! It's like using a knife and not realising you 
can use it to cut things with... WTF?! >_<

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