Comments on: SQL SERVER – SQL Joke, SQL Humor, SQL Laugh – Silly Mistake

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:39:09 +0000

One option is to use DELETE trigger and check for the number of records

If (select count(*) from table)=0
rollback

However it will not gaurantee when all rows are delete using the where clause.

By: Subramaniam

Subramaniam — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:28:43 +0000

Could you please tell me how to disable delete command if suppose where conditions is not specified in Delete ( For security Purpose)

By: Kearns

Kearns — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:55:19 +0000

I think, more importantly, this is a case that illustrates why not only backups are important but staging servers. I author and test all of my scripts on my development box before running them live (and still usually cringe when executing).

Of course at a job, a long time ago, I did a “rm *.*” instead of the “rm a:*.*” that I was supposed to do and wiped a whole terminal, and the guy I had to tell, the head of corporate IT, was my Dad…