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T-SQL Tuesday #83: Why Leave Well Enough Alone?

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It’s 2016. So why are we still dealing with T-SQL code and design patterns that were designed 7 versions ago?

In the 15 years I have been using databases professionally, we’re still dealing with:

Peoples’ names are split into first name, last name and middle initial fields. Ignoring that this falls afoul of several of the myths programmers believe about names, the first name column was defined as CHAR(10) in a standard installation.

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