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Names (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

How about DROP TABLE;

[-] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 29 points 10 months ago

[-] TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

A fresh start

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 17 points 10 months ago

Should've signed up on a smaller instance if they wanted one of the popular names...

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"xoxoCoolGurl420xoxo"

We've been dealing with this since AoL.

[-] ghoscht@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

Discord had this solved ages ago. Why did they have to ruin it?

[-] snor10@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

I wonder what kind of names we would have nowadays if it really worked like this.

[-] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

Same as we have now, firstname@lastname

[-] ButWhatDoesItAllMean@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I went to school with 27 Jennifers

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

It is really so hard to add an ID# column to the database? Set the people free, I say!

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 3 points 10 months ago

jennifer@lemmy.ml or jennifer@lemmy.mindoki.com?

[-] istdaslol@feddit.de -5 points 10 months ago

Fun fact, it’s already working this way. Within a birth register there can, for a given day, only one be person with a given firstname

[-] dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

[✅] Fun

[❌] Fact

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

I had a health care provider tell me that they couldn't create an account in their portal because they already had someone with my exact name and DOB. They refused to accept that they had bad data in their system, but they did tell me the email address on file (probably a HIPPA violation right there) and I was tempted to reach out to see if there actually existed someone with my same DOB and First/Last name.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

What the hell kind of database doesn't use an internally generated unique ID to reference user data? It shouldn't matter that there is duplicate data. But like you said, it's hospital systems I guess...