The Daily WTF

As per usual, we’ll be spending a few days looking back at some of our favorite stories of the year. We start with a visit to a place where copy/pasting isn’t just common, it’s part of the culture. Original — Remy

Mark F had just gone to production on the first project at his new job: create a billables reconciliation report that an end-user had requested a few years ago. It was clearly not a high priority, which was exactly why it was the perfect items to assign a new programmer.

“Unfortunately,” the end user reported, “it just doesn’t seem to be working. It’s running fine on test, but when I run it on the live site I’m getting a SELECT permission denied on the object fn_CalculateBusinessDays message. Any idea what that means?”

The problem was fairly obvious, and Mark knew exactly what the error meant. But the

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