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Weird emails from Samsung to third-party developers containing usernames and passwords had some worried that the chaebol had been hacked. But the electronics giant says it's nothing to worry about. Earlier in the week, several Reg readers got in touch after they each received an email from Sammy titled "Your Login Information …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Gimp

    Behind you

    "After all, there isn't a programmer alive who hasn't pressed a button, or typed a command,"

    Behind every great DevOps (*) there is a sysadmin rolling their eyes ...

    Cheers

    Jon

    (*) Wiping their arse with a copy of the ISO9000/27000/ITIL/PlaySchool manual

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    1. Solmyr ibn Wali Barad
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      Re: Behind you

      And in one fell swoop was the line crossed, that fine line between realms of DevOps and DevOops.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    @gerdesj : Amen!

    Sorry I can't give you more than one up vote.

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    1. Fatman
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      Re: @gerdesj : Amen!

      I gave him one in your name.

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  3. Blofeld's Cat
    Facepalm

    Are you sure ?

    "... that instant "oh, nooo" moment ..."

    Yes - Been there, done that, recreated the database table...

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    1. Roq D. Kasba
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      Re: Are you sure ?

      That "Noooooo" moment got me a new workflow of writing all DELETE...FROM as SELECT... FROM first, then only changing to DELETE when I'd checked the WHERE was correct (or indeed present!)

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      1. bpfh
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        Re: Are you sure ?

        I did the same.... Then I started thinking with transactions! Or backing up critical tables! (Can't always be done I agree...)

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      2. Anonymous Coward Silver badge
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        Re: Are you sure ?

        Yep, the 'select from' -> 'delete from' shuffle here too.

        Also any shell scripts get an 'echo' prefix on any action lines while developing.

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  4. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

    Well, as long as it's just a cock-up and not a flamingo-up ...

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  5. Roq D. Kasba

    Yes! For smaller edits I took to BEGIN TRANS then whilst in context either ROLLBACK or COMMIT TRANS. Not always practical, but seeing as there's no UNDO DELETE syntax, was stuck with it ;-)

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    1. Electron Shepherd
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      More commands needed

      Yes, SQL definitely needs a 'PUT BACK' command for when you delete the wrong data.

      I have found myself wishing for a 'PICKUP TABLE' command, shortly after I dropped the wrong one...

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      1. Down not across
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        Re: More commands needed

        Yes, SQL definitely needs a 'PUT BACK' command for when you delete the wrong data.

        I have found myself wishing for a 'PICKUP TABLE' command, shortly after I dropped the wrong one...

        If you're unfortunate enough to have to suffer Oracle (10g1 or later) there are various flashback options (flashback query, flashback table or flashback database (and recycle bin functionality if you really must)) that would help in that situation.

        1 Yes there was DBMS_FLASHBACK in 9i but I'm not going there...

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  6. Electron Shepherd

    An accident? Who really pressed the button?

    If only there was some way that those at Samsung responsible for marketing the new developer program could get the technical press to report on it, and maybe even include a link to the new site in the article they write.

    It's a real shame they couldn't think of anything...

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  7. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

    Is there some magic difference between.....

    Developing apps for Samsung Android and other (possibly) inferior Androids?

    If not then what is so special about the Samsung developer program? Do they give you a free Galaxy Edge?

    It would be nice to know.

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    1. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
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      Re: Is there some magic difference between.....

      "If not then what is so special about the Samsung developer program? Do they give you a free Galaxy Edge?"

      Following the supplied link to the Samsung dev site, it appears they support developers for Galaxy, Gear (wearables), Z (Tizen) and Smart TVs, so no not just generic android phones.

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  8. Anonymous Coward
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    If you know my password, its not secure. If you know a salted hash of my password, I smile upon you.

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