▽The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology ●11/27 10:53 Hall of Mirrorsby Remy Porter in CodeSOD on 2024-11-26Robert was diagnosing a problem in a reporting module. The application code ran a fairly simple query- SELECT field1, field2, field3 FROM report_table- so he foolishly assumed that it would be easy to understand the problem. Of course, the "table" driving the report wasn't actually a table, it was a view in the database.Most of our readers a