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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • I used to work at a company that provided tech support for a few Canadian Tires. They don’t hire nearly enough staff. They try to make up for it with high amounts of automation. Frequently people will come and steal from them because there aren’t enough staff to stop that. This causes the inventory system to think there is more stock than there is. Because the reduced staff, they don’t frequently manually check their stock so it can be quite some time before it becomes aparent.





  • I had this happen to me! I created an instance for myself and a few friends. I didn’t tell anyone about it outside the 3 of us and I didn’t post it anywhere. I had some trouble with my SMTP settings initially so disabled the email verification. I fixed the settings and re enabled the email verification. Someone messaged me pointing out that I had an extra 30,492 users. Within 2 days they found me and created that many accounts.

    It took a long time to delete. Querying the DB or adding a record took milliseconds, but removing one of these users took about 6 seconds each. They must have had a lot of other records in other tables that got cleaned up at the same time? Removing that many records took me a day and a half.

    Thanks for your post. It was very helpful.