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The DAMMIT keyword

Posted At : May 15, 2007 4:45 AM | Posted By : name
Related Categories: Software Development

Ray Camden has a post venting about an admitedly annoying feature of the Windows OS. I completely agree with Ray's sentiment, but it brought to mind an idea I've had that could have alleviated Ray's shagrin.

I'd like to propose a universal DAMMIT keyword to be implemented in all programming languages and command-line syntaxes. This special keyword essentially bypasses all idiot-proofing warnings and safeguards and causes the base command to be executed regardless.

Example

DROP TABLE(employees)
GO

-- Cannot drop table EMPLOYEES. Table is in use

DROP TABLE(employees) DAMMIT
GO

-- Command completed successfully

Obviously this could be abused, so users may need to provide their TCID to unlock this functionality.