Objective: Tidy Up the Data
There’s a certain type of person who is unnerved by a gap in a series.
bug_id | status | product_name |
|---|---|---|
1 | OPEN | Open RoundFile |
2 | FIXED | ReConsider |
4 | OPEN | ReConsider |
On one hand, it’s understandable to be concerned, because it’s unclear what happened to the row with bug_id 3. Why didn’t the query return that bug? Did the database lose it? What was in that bug? Was the bug reported by one of our important customers? Am I going to be held responsible for the lost data?
The objective of one who practices the Pseudokey Neat-Freak antipattern is to resolve these troubling questions. This person is accountable for data integrity issues, but typically they don’t have enough understanding of or confidence in the database technology to feel ...
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