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ef sucks, don't use it i don't know what the solution is for doing db stuff, but i certainly know that ef is not that solution
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Flat Daddy posted:what are some things I can do if my work project is not technically interesting in any way but I want to add bullet points to my resume? have you tried applying unnecessary technologies that don't actually meet the business needs any better than a simple solution would have?
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Apr 8, 2019 22:48
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redleader posted:ef sucks, don't use it dapper and stored procs i was updating an old batch job today to add some new functions and it was all old school sql datareaders and it suucckkkedd having to manually cast everything and check for nulls. i should have just added Dapper to it but i didn't want to end up with two approaches embedded into the thing and was too lazy to update the whole thing and then have to test it
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Apr 8, 2019 22:49
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DELETE CASCADE posted:have you tried applying unnecessary technologies that don't actually meet the business needs any better than a simple solution would have? that’s what the project already is. we use react and redux to render a basically static page. others are working on replacing the backend with microservices that talk to each other with a central queue. someone else is “researching” adding graphql layer. at this point i think I’d need to invent new forms of wankery to get in on the action
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Apr 8, 2019 23:21
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HoboMan posted:my new job will pay for it so can anyone recommend a tutorial service? if your job is paying for it, the correct answer is college
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Apr 8, 2019 23:29
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:dapper and stored procs the missing piece would be nicely managing schema changes and migrations, and coordinating the rollout of these i guess ef's selling point is that it does everything (albeit with mediocrity)
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Apr 8, 2019 23:34
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redleader posted:the missing piece would be nicely managing schema changes and migrations, and coordinating the rollout of these funnily enough ive been looking at that sort of thing and as far as i can tell all solutions suck in different ways and you're always going to end up having to janitor dependencies somehow like maybe you could abstract your entire db into a BI layer (or Business Objects layer or whatever the proper name is) so that all your schema dependencies are in one place but ive seen that kind of done and it sucks and never gets maintained properly. edit: i guess dapper introduces a sort of hidden dependency in that your proc outputs must match to your class property names and that is not directly visible if you don't pay attention, but i'll take that over "somewhere in this edmx file is the mapping i need" any day Powerful Two-Hander fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Apr 8, 2019 |
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Apr 8, 2019 23:47
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I just remembered that our older apps (we have Web apps from like 2007)used to use the "shared business objects" approach and it probably started as a good idea but ended up with nonsensical methods/objects being used all over the place because people kept including it as a dll and passing it around so you'd get likecode:with weirdo mappings behind them instead of just writing a new call edit: oh yeah and people would modify the library for specific use cases and not check changes in so you'd have like 5 different mutually incompatible versions floating around it sucked Powerful Two-Hander fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Apr 9, 2019 |
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Apr 9, 2019 00:06
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the more i attempt to use c++ metaprogramming the more i can feel my brain dribbling out my ears
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Apr 9, 2019 00:34
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animist posted:the more i attempt to use c++ metaprogramming the more i can feel my brain dribbling out my ears c++ metaprogramming is incredibly good but unfortunately it requires a lovely perfectly smooth brain. marble-like, hard as a rock. this is enlightenment
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Apr 9, 2019 00:49
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Phobeste posted:c++ metaprogramming is incredibly good but unfortunately it requires a lovely perfectly smooth brain. marble-like, hard as a rock. this is enlightenment 
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Apr 9, 2019 00:57
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redleader posted:the missing piece would be nicely managing schema changes and migrations, and coordinating the rollout of these If you are using MSSQL then the SSDT project type is good for storing all the schema objects and you can get the build to output a .dacpac file that you can feed into a command line utility to do a fresh deploy or a possibly graceful migration. This falls apart if you have a change resulting in possible loss of data (e.g. changing a column from an nvarchar to a varchar), but in those cases a I don't see how you get around some amount of dba intervention or whatever. I've got our current build process setup so that changes in the schema project result in a new MSSQL docker container being built and registered which goes a long way for doing dev stuff or certain integration tests where spinning up an empty DB is useful. If you aren't using MSSQL I guess you can just put a big SQL create script into source control and get most of the same benefits.
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Apr 9, 2019 01:26
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that reminds me - at my first real programming job (php/mysql, because of course) the database schema versioning system was a bunch of ddl statements on a trac wiki page. on deploy you manually ran whatever had been changed since last deploy in the production db. pretty spoooky stuff in retrospect but i don't seem to remember anything going spectacularly wrong in my time there.
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Apr 9, 2019 01:37
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we're gonna have a really good programming module because of me
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Apr 9, 2019 02:04
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Lutha Mahtin posted:are you able to get a PO Box or a coworking space? No, but the thought of trying the "well im technically doing all the business online, so" line of questioning did occur to me. I couldn't get through to the Zoning Board and they wanted me to leave a message, and I'm hesitant about leaving details about something that could get me in trouble, but I'll call the county clerk's office and ask them instead. One of the nine places where I applied for a Django job wrote me "There's been a lot of interest in the position making the selection process extremely competitive. Although your experience is impressive, it's not the best match for this specific role. I'll keep your resume and contact you if I come across other opportunities that may be a better match." I'm going to work on getting an online tutoring job now galenanorth fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Apr 9, 2019 |
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Apr 9, 2019 02:36
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gonadic io posted:I'm doing my first async http server/client/db thing in rust and am finding it pretty painful honestly: https://github.com/djmcgill/de-list-server I'm both a couple days late and too lazy right now to actually investigate your code, but is there any reason you're going lower-level with hyper/tokio rather than one of the higher level frameworks? Rocket was really easy for simple projects, but I've moved over to Actix for my more recent toy projects. I would definitely recommend using a framework for Rust web things, unless your project is a web framework itself. Beamed posted:This was 2008-2011 Look at this guy, graduating high school in 3 years. I was 7-11. Phobeste posted:c++ metaprogramming is incredibly good but unfortunately it requires a lovely perfectly smooth brain. marble-like, hard as a rock. this is enlightenment I'm wonder how the developers are doing at my previous employer. Once I got a good grasp of templates and metaprogramming, I started using a lot of it. I tried to document it well, as I had already been thinking of leaving (and I have compassion and empathy for other devs), but I'm still curious how they're dealing with the damage I left behind.
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HoboMan posted:my new job will pay for it so can anyone recommend a tutorial service? I've heard good things about egghead and thinkster.
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pseudorandom posted:I'm both a couple days late and too lazy right now to actually investigate your code, but is there any reason you're going lower-level with hyper/tokio rather than one of the higher level frameworks? Rocket was really easy for simple projects, but I've moved over to Actix for my more recent toy projects. I would definitely recommend using a framework for Rust web things, unless your project is a web framework itself. I had a look at them but didn't really see what they'd give me for my dumb use case. I do want to switch to Tide to get futures 0.3 everywhere though
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Apr 9, 2019 08:13
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HoboMan posted:i get to pick all the tech for a brand new webapp! dare you to propose this and then when the laughing is over tell them you actually want to use Dyalog
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Apr 9, 2019 08:49
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:funnily enough ive been looking at that sort of thing and as far as i can tell all solutions suck in different ways and you're always going to end up having to janitor dependencies somehow Is this not just an ORM, just use Hibernate/JPA to manage your schema.
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Apr 9, 2019 09:31
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DELETE CASCADE posted:have you tried applying unnecessary technologies that don't actually meet the business needs any better than a simple solution would have? We call that 'futureproofing'
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Apr 9, 2019 09:31
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:"somewhere in this edmx file is the mapping i need" so glad I don't work with EF anymore
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Apr 9, 2019 14:03
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Aramoro posted:Is this not just an ORM, just use Hibernate/JPA to manage your schema. 
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Apr 9, 2019 14:35
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oh god jesus gently caress hibernate is one of the few things worse than EF.
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Apr 9, 2019 14:52
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Finster Dexter posted:oh god jesus gently caress hibernate is one of the few things worse than EF. Counterpoint, Hibernate is cool and good.
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Probably the most useful take I've gotten from reading this thread over the years is that the application layer has no business owning the database layer and that ORMs inevitably end up with people blowing off their own foot and then just shrugging it off because at least they don't have to touch SQL. My first job out of college had an inventory processing job that had to be run every 2 hours. While the job was running no one could generate any reports off the DB or do any type of manual entry into the inventory system. By the time I was hired the job took anywhere from 80 to 110 minutes run, meaning that anyone that needed access to the inventory system had about a ~30 minute window every two hours to do whatever they needed to do with the inventory system before it went down again. My manager told me that "its doing a bunch of really complicated SQL stuff on our ~*~5000 SKUs~*~ so there's not really any way to make it faster". Everyone on the product team had just accepted that they would have to constantly rearrange their schedules around the 3-4 times per day when the inventory system was available. I eventually got assigned a task to change some portion of the code in that job and I discovered that the two senior devs that had written it had used EF and were doing tons of 2-3 level nested iterations inside LINQ-SQL IQueryables without materializing anything so each outer iteration ended up producing 1000s of queries that were mostly full table scans because no one had bothered to index anything. That thing probably took 2-3 minutes to run back when they only had 100 or so SKUs but just exploded as that DB grew and it was impossible to debug because even if you ran the query profiler you have to still map all of the garbled autogenerated EF SQL back to the LINQ statements. That place had tons of scheduled jobs that ran for insane amounts of time and people were just fine having like a nightly ~8 hour job that would fail at 4AM 2-3 times a month. I finally buckled down and learned how to index properly and was able to get a couple of those from 4+ hours to less than a few minutes and it is a v gratifying feeling. SQL owns and I'll never understand why so many people will jump through so many hoops to not have to touch it.
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elcannon posted:SQL owns and I'll never understand why so many people will jump through so many hoops to not have to touch it. Developers have a particular talent for absolutely butchering hand crafting SQL. One of the first things I looked at when in an investment bank was a query that was taking ages, previous dev was producing a Cartesian product of rows in the database for a query. On his test database with 10 rows no issues, with millions of rows? Less good. We use Hibernate specifically because we support deploying on SQL Server and Oracle and formally DB2. Aramoro fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Apr 9, 2019 |
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Apr 9, 2019 15:49
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if you cant write sql you probably cant write application code.
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Apr 9, 2019 15:50
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Aramoro posted:Developers have a particular talent for absolutely butchering hand crafting SQL. We use Hibernate specifically because we support deploying on SQL Server and Oracle and formally DB2. use a statement mapper, then You get to abstract away the raw sql but don't have the janky bullshit that inevitably happens with ORM
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Finster Dexter posted:use a statement mapper, then Application is majority CRUD application, utilising a large number of the features of Hibernate with lazy loading etc. It's basically a textbook example of where you should use an ORM. Just being able to persist pojo's in a DAO layer is a big advantage. Using a statement mapper would end up with us essentially writing our own ORM which would be a bad choice.
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one of the most fun tasks I had in my first year at this job was coding a "shipping suggestion score" that was essentially an m-dimensional knapsack problem i got a good lesson on the importance of specs when it turned out they barely kept any stock for their hugely varied catalogue, meaning m (nr. of possible items) was on the order of 10k or so, the knapsack max 'weight' for each dimension (nr. of each item in stock) was < 10, and each item had 'weights' (order quantities) in the 0-5 range. so basically it was closer to boolean logic than combinatorial optimization, and most of my algorithm code was useless and had to be redesigned for that particular use case well, just got a lesson on the importance of *writing down* those specs, and also on placing hard execution time limits on all your non-essential async tasks. the client just had a special offer where everybody who placed an order this week got a free $widget, and they stocked up on something like 80k of that one particular $widget, which also appeared in every order. so while my original implementation might have worked decently well, the updated implementation ran face-first into a combinatorial explosion, ate approximately all of the RAM, and crashed the application as it tried to figure out the optimal way to allocate those 80k widgets to ship as many orders as possible. fun.
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Aramoro posted:Application is majority CRUD application, utilising a large number of the features of Hibernate with lazy loading etc. It's basically a textbook example of where you should use an ORM. Just being able to persist pojo's in a DAO layer is a big advantage. Using a statement mapper would end up with us essentially writing our own ORM which would be a bad choice. I assume this is the same textbook that teaches inheritance as good, so probably just throw that in the trash
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i will say that if you are doing pure CRUD and your objects are strictly just tables then an ORM lets you skip doing a lot of manual mapping and can be good. however this use case is actually pretty rare unless you are very careful in your requirements and initial design. (also you may have to manually map stuff anyways because gently caress you, arbitrary business rules)
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Apr 9, 2019 17:42
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sql is the best and orms are bad, namaste
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DELETE CASCADE posted:sql is the best and orms are bad, namaste 
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Apr 9, 2019 18:54
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query builders/sql metaprogramming tools are usually p dang handy on the application side though. SQLAlchemy, jOOQ, that sort of thing.
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HoboMan posted:i will say that if you are doing pure CRUD and your objects are strictly just tables then an ORM lets you skip doing a lot of manual mapping and can be good. ORMs are fine if you accept that while they save you writing a lot of SQL, they don't stop you from needing to understand it. Edit to add: also learn what 'Inverse' does and don't just pepper it around until things start working toiletbrush fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Apr 9, 2019 |
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guess who got two thumbs and found plaintext passwords in the database?
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cjs: just finished a shouting match between me, CTO, and CEO... choice CEO quote: "small, quick tasks will always be higher priority than bigger tasks even though the small tasks might be less important from a business standpoint." oh ok let me just interrupt the frontend work on our new platform version so frontend dev can spend 10 minutes adjusting a font size on the old version that will be obsolete in 3 weeks. 
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