Safe SQL Habits and Preventing Dangerous Operations
Understand how to protect your data by adopting safe SQL habits. Learn to verify queries before execution, use AI as a safety reviewer, apply transactions as safeguards, and practice cautious updates to avoid costly mistakes in database management.
Step 1: The golden rule
When SQL modifies data, it doesn’t pause to ask, Are you sure? That responsibility is yours.
A single missing WHERE or typo in a condition can:
Delete every row in a table.
Update all salaries to the same number.
Break relationships between tables.
Let’s learn how to prevent that from happening.
Step 2: Think before you run
Let’s imagine this query:
What does it do? Right, it wipes out every record in the table.
Before running ...