An instance of a popular CMS is used for a website. While analyzing I'm coming across a a table in it's MySQL database where a column called "deleted" is defined as such:
deleted` tinyint(4) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 COMMENT 'A boolean indicating whether this data item has been deletedโ
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There should be a license allowing allowed to write software used by someone else. Like with drivers licenses it needs a points system for violations and license revocation. #WebDevelopment#PHP#MYSQL#SQL
@OldGrumpyBitWrangler In fairness, 95% of developers in my experience don't know what SQL is, other than "that thing backing my over-engineered ORM." The vast majority of implementations use SQL as a glorified card catalog or CSV file with indexes, for hydrating overly complex objects in the language of choice.
That's hardly specific to one ORM, language, or database.