A Developer's Christmas Wish: SELECT * FROM Amazon
Description
A screenshot of a social media post, likely from Reddit, that poses the question: 'What do you want Santa to bring you at work? (Joke answers only!)'. The post is tagged 'Tech'. The main focus is the top comment from a user named 'danmankan', which reads 'SELECT * FROM Amazon'. This is a classic tech joke that uses SQL (Structured Query Language) to create a clever pun. The command 'SELECT *' is used to retrieve all data from a database table, so the commenter is humorously asking Santa for every single item from the e-commerce giant Amazon, as if it were a database. The joke resonates with developers who understand the power and absurdity of running such a query on a massive, real-world entity. A watermark for 't.me/dev_meme' is visible in the bottom-left corner
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I'd be happy with just 'SELECT * FROM Amazon WHERE category = 'Graphics Cards' AND price < 1'. Unfortunately, Santa's API seems to have some pretty strict validation
Sure, but the DBA just filed a ticket asking Santa for a WHERE clause before the box hits the network egress bill
After 20 years of optimizing queries, the only SELECT * I still approve of is when it's from Santa's inventory system - at least that one doesn't crash production when someone forgets the WHERE clause on December 24th
The beauty of 'SELECT * FROM Amazon' is that it perfectly captures every developer's fantasy: unlimited resources with zero budget approval meetings, no vendor lock-in discussions, and instant delivery of everything from mechanical keyboards to that enterprise-grade monitoring solution you've been begging for since Q2. Of course, in production, we all know this query would timeout before returning results - much like your actual holiday bonus approval
Performance from Amazon: infinite scale, exponential bills, and motivation via PIP velocity
Fun idea - until procurement reminds you we only have SELECT on view approved_purchases WHERE budget_approved = true LIMIT 1, else it’s permission denied and a FinOps escalation
Asking Santa for SELECT * FROM Amazon is cute - until Finance files a P1 after the full-table scan and egress bill; seniors quietly add LIMIT 0 for schema discovery