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		SoftTalker on Dec 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 ho... Your database should not allow invalid values to exist. That is what check contstraints, foreign keys, NOT NULL constraints, etc. are for.

rini17 on Dec 27, 2022 | [–]

If you're such a DBA, the rest of an enterprise will quickly route around you.

lmm on Dec 28, 2022 | [–]

That's the attitude that causes these problems. Probably their date was set to 1/1/2000 because the database wouldn't allow them to not set a date.

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