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  • Y Yusuf

    I meant to delete five rows from a table and wrote very quickly this

    delete dbo.tblXYZ
    where ID >= 116 or ID <= 120

    ended blowing the whole table away. Talk about blowing your feet off I know, I know it should have been AND not OR, it is too late now. :-O UPDATE: I have a backup, but lost a hour worth of work...

    Yusuf May I help you?

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    dan sh
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    Ummm, is "I didn't do it" an option? If not, run, run away.

    My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]

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    • Y Yusuf

      I meant to delete five rows from a table and wrote very quickly this

      delete dbo.tblXYZ
      where ID >= 116 or ID <= 120

      ended blowing the whole table away. Talk about blowing your feet off I know, I know it should have been AND not OR, it is too late now. :-O UPDATE: I have a backup, but lost a hour worth of work...

      Yusuf May I help you?

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      Richard Andrew x64
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      To avoid such problems, I usually substitute a SELECT query using the desired conditional clause to see what records will be affected BEFORE executing the DELETE query. I hope it wasn't anything you can't recreate!

      The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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      • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

        To avoid such problems, I usually substitute a SELECT query using the desired conditional clause to see what records will be affected BEFORE executing the DELETE query. I hope it wasn't anything you can't recreate!

        The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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        dan sh
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        Real men do not care. They simply run the query. And then in middle of night they restore the backup that they did before running the query.

        My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]

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        • D dan sh

          Real men do not care. They simply run the query. And then in middle of night they restore the backup that they did before running the query.

          My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]

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          Richard Andrew x64
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          #5

          Let's hope the OP had a backup. :)

          The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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          • Y Yusuf

            I meant to delete five rows from a table and wrote very quickly this

            delete dbo.tblXYZ
            where ID >= 116 or ID <= 120

            ended blowing the whole table away. Talk about blowing your feet off I know, I know it should have been AND not OR, it is too late now. :-O UPDATE: I have a backup, but lost a hour worth of work...

            Yusuf May I help you?

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            Mike Hankey
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            You had backups of course? :)

            Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever! Rich Tennant 5th Wave

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            • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

              Let's hope the OP had a backup. :)

              The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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              Yusuf
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              I had a backup, but lost lost an hour worth of work, which is not bad considering the size of the table

              Yusuf May I help you?

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              • Y Yusuf

                I meant to delete five rows from a table and wrote very quickly this

                delete dbo.tblXYZ
                where ID >= 116 or ID <= 120

                ended blowing the whole table away. Talk about blowing your feet off I know, I know it should have been AND not OR, it is too late now. :-O UPDATE: I have a backup, but lost a hour worth of work...

                Yusuf May I help you?

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                Jorgen Andersson
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                That's what you use BETWEEN for. Less ambiguity.

                Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

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                • D dan sh

                  Real men do not care. They simply run the query. And then in middle of night they restore the backup that they did before running the query.

                  My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]

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                  Yusuf
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #9

                  being real man cost me my sleep ;P

                  Yusuf May I help you?

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                  • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

                    You had backups of course? :)

                    Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever! Rich Tennant 5th Wave

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                    Yusuf
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                    what backup? Real men don't backup :doh: I do, but lost an hour worth of work, which is not bad considering the size of the table if I didn't backup

                    Yusuf May I help you?

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                    • D dan sh

                      Ummm, is "I didn't do it" an option? If not, run, run away.

                      My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]

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                      Yusuf
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                      #11

                      I'm the sole creator and maintainer of the data. No where to run :-O

                      Yusuf May I help you?

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                      • Y Yusuf

                        what backup? Real men don't backup :doh: I do, but lost an hour worth of work, which is not bad considering the size of the table if I didn't backup

                        Yusuf May I help you?

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                        Mike Hankey
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                        #12

                        Backup as in a bucket of 1s and 0s, in a logical order of course. :)

                        Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever! Rich Tennant 5th Wave

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                        • Y Yusuf

                          I meant to delete five rows from a table and wrote very quickly this

                          delete dbo.tblXYZ
                          where ID >= 116 or ID <= 120

                          ended blowing the whole table away. Talk about blowing your feet off I know, I know it should have been AND not OR, it is too late now. :-O UPDATE: I have a backup, but lost a hour worth of work...

                          Yusuf May I help you?

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                          CPallini
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                          Klingon developers like bold personalities like yours.

                          Yusuf wrote:

                          UPDATE: I have a backup, but lost a hour worth of work...

                          Some man points gone away...

                          Veni, vidi, vici.

                          In testa che avete, signor di Ceprano?

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                          • CPalliniC CPallini

                            Klingon developers like bold personalities like yours.

                            Yusuf wrote:

                            UPDATE: I have a backup, but lost a hour worth of work...

                            Some man points gone away...

                            Veni, vidi, vici.

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                            Yusuf
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                            FTFY

                            CPallini wrote:

                            Some man Klingon points gone away...

                            Yusuf May I help you?

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                            • Y Yusuf

                              I meant to delete five rows from a table and wrote very quickly this

                              delete dbo.tblXYZ
                              where ID >= 116 or ID <= 120

                              ended blowing the whole table away. Talk about blowing your feet off I know, I know it should have been AND not OR, it is too late now. :-O UPDATE: I have a backup, but lost a hour worth of work...

                              Yusuf May I help you?

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                              Lost User
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                              Have a template that says "START TRANSACTION" at the top; that way you can always rollback or commit your command.

                              Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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                              • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

                                To avoid such problems, I usually substitute a SELECT query using the desired conditional clause to see what records will be affected BEFORE executing the DELETE query. I hope it wasn't anything you can't recreate!

                                The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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                                Mycroft Holmes
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                                I do the same thing for an update as well, I may not qualify as a real man but I don't trash table these days.

                                Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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