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.
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...
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How about
DROP TABLE;A fresh start
Should've signed up on a smaller instance if they wanted one of the popular names...
"xoxoCoolGurl420xoxo"
We've been dealing with this since AoL.
Discord had this solved ages ago. Why did they have to ruin it?
I wonder what kind of names we would have nowadays if it really worked like this.
Same as we have now, firstname@lastname
I went to school with 27 Jennifers
It is really so hard to add an ID# column to the database? Set the people free, I say!
[email protected] or [email protected]?
5309 not 5039
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
[✅] Fun
[❌] Fact
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.
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...
It all started when Bob stated that his nephew could do it for one fifth of the asking price.
I'm probably younger than Bobs nephew and I know to use unique identifiors.
It's probably the people who say "omg, look at our website builder, low code!111!!!11" that made this mistake
I don't think it's a matter of age.