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When I was an intern, I wrote a very heavy MySQL query with multiple joins. Quite frustrated, I asked for some help from one of my seniors.

He came by on my desk and told me, "Explain your query!".

I was completely blank-faced O_O.

After a few moments, the senior grabbed this hopeless bastard's keyboard and typed "EXPLAIN" in the beginning of the query; and then ran it.

I thought he was being hard to me.

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  • 2
    Nice twist =)
  • 6
    Wait that works?
  • 1
    @PrivateGER yup. Try it out :)
  • 9
    Hahahaha I laughed hard xD
  • 11
    Lol, I totally forgot that you can explain a query.
  • 10
    @three333 oh no. I might literally jump when you say JMP.

    Sometime in my career later, I was asked to describe a table, I didn't fall for it ;) Otherwise would've responded "It's a really big table with a lot of data"

    Lesson: whenever you talk to a dev, you should evaluate his/her statement it if it's a command or not.
  • 1
    and that’s how you let the query explain itself, lols
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