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Discussion on: Consider SQL when writing your next processing pipeline

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BenBirt

Yup, this would be a tricky situation! To be honest, my advice would be:

  • only run SQL that is checked in to some source control somewhere - this rules out stored procedures, at least unless you have some release process that you trust that pushes your code to a stored procedure
  • figuring out the relevant SELECT is a matter of (a) having the original SQL be modular enough that you can easily do so, and (b) a reasonably standard debugging procedure (look at the output, if it's wrong then look one step before the output, etc)
  • it's bad practice to be running any form of processing pipeline that modifies underlying schemas, at least unless the modification is eventually consistent, for exactly the reason you mention