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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 months ago by SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 145 points 6 months ago (25 children)

60k isn't that much, I frequently run scripts against multiple hundreds of thousands at work. Wtf is he doing? Did he duplicate the government database onto his 2015 MacBook Air?

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean if we were to sort of steelman this thing, there sure can be database relations and queries that hit only 60k rows but are still hteavy as fuck.

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