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Discussion on: What software development tools (libraries/frameworks/apps/whatever) make you feel most anxious while you're working with them?

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Tyler V.

Watching someone/working in Production Databases. There's so many easy ways to accidentally bring the system down in a fiery mess. Especially when watching someone that doesn't give off a strong sense that they know what they're doing.

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Marko Shiva

Same with me. Well that is a scary situation playing with the production database.

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Rudolf Olah

Just as anxious-inducing for me is copying a production database to your local development box. If there's private customer data, ugh. (One consulting gig insisted I copy the production database over for local development or connect to it directly and it was a small business so the owners and employees and contractors can lose their livelihoods with one messed up SQL query or ORM command).