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The experience that made me hate programming, but that's all on me (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev

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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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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago

Programming: not even once!

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (11 children)

The reason the date is not in the output is because you didn't include a date column in your SELECT statement.

If you want to include the date in the output, you'll need to add a column that contains the date to your SELECT statement. For example, if you have a column named "created_at" or "date" in your mainWorkSpace table, you can add it to your SELECT statement like this:

SELECT task, status, id, created_at FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id

This will include the created_at column in the output of your query.

🤷 Gpt, first try. I don't know what you asked.

[–] MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I pasted my code multiple times and didn't give me that answer. Maybe it's because you only copied the query and not the code that i wrote.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I also posed the question why I don't get a date in the output of course.

[–] MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

I was talking about this date which was used to display the date assigned by the user, but the column was not displaying with the date because I wasn't asking sql for the date (if you've looked at the query), so yeah, a stupid mistake caused for a stupid angry post.

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[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

I'm a coder and I like my job. It just has to fit with you. You have to be zen and like fiddling around with stuff. How did you even learn to write all of that if you hate it so much?

There's a book called what color is your parachute you might like.

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