{"id":399,"date":"2017-05-25T10:46:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T18:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:46:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T18:46:52","slug":"i-wrote-the-sql-query-in-5-mins-why-does-my-engineer-say-it-will-take-a-month-wtf-is-my-engineer-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/25\/i-wrote-the-sql-query-in-5-mins-why-does-my-engineer-say-it-will-take-a-month-wtf-is-my-engineer-talking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"I wrote the SQL query in 5 mins. Why does my engineer say it will take a month? \u2013 WTF Is My Engineer Talking About"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[&#8230;] as the saying goes, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Much as I\u2019m not a marketing professional just because that witty tweet I wrote that one time got 75 RT\u2019s, you\u2019re not an engineer because you sent an HTML email that looks great in all email clients except Outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say you wrote an email template that you already sent out to some users, and you want to add a page with the same information to your website. Or you wrote a SQL query that you use for some analytics purposes and now you want your engineer to add something similar to the product \u2013 maybe as part of a dashboard, or maybe as a core feature. Easy, right? You already did the hard part!<\/p>\n<p>Not necessarily. That query might be fine for one-off use, but may not be suitable for a production environment. Here are just a few reasons it might not be that simple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wtfismyengineertalkingabout.com\/2017\/03\/11\/i-wrote-the-sql-query-in-5-mins-why-does-my-engineer-say-it-will-take-a-month\/\">I wrote the SQL query in 5 mins. Why does my engineer say it will take a month? \u2013 WTF Is My Engineer Talking About<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;] as the saying goes, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Much as I\u2019m not a marketing professional just because that witty tweet I wrote that one time got 75 RT\u2019s, you\u2019re not an engineer because you sent an HTML email that looks great in all email clients except Outlook. Let\u2019s say you wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-databases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}