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miapjp Right there with Babe Points: 782 More actions · Answer 1

When I worked in a larger company and had to do maintenance programming, I learned to write better errors because I hated this kind of thing. SQL Server gives you all the information you need to put out a helpful error.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004290 More actions · Answer 2

Now THAT's funny. Talk about "Team Work", eh?

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736068 More actions · Answer 3

MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:

I came across a stored procedure recently where there were 2 developers clearly arguing we didn't have source control for sql at the time of the argument (way before I started) and all dev work was on the live server, so all code changes were commented out as a rollback strategy (sigh) the comments went something like this...

I dislike some sort of multiple comment discussion inline. I think this is better in a header (or as a commit in a VCS). I prefer that a comment inline is just about the current state of code and why something is implemented in a certain way.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736068 More actions · Answer 4

mike.sortino wrote:

I think it is a ridiculous waste of time when someone comments on the obvious, like: counter++; // increment counter Really??

I blame professors are unis for this. That's the type of nonsense they asked me to write, or they gave extra credit for including.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004290 More actions · Answer 5

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

mike.sortino wrote:
I think it is a ridiculous waste of time when someone comments on the obvious, like: counter++; // increment counter Really??
I blame professors are unis for this. That's the type of nonsense they asked me to write, or they gave extra credit for including.

Heh... totally inappropriate comment... I'd have commented "Bump the Counter". 😀

Such seemingly ridiculous comments make it easy to find the obvious because you don't have to shift your mind from looking at comments to looking at code, especially when you're under the gun.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

David Conn SSCertifiable Points: 6010 More actions · Answer 6

Still using RPG. It's Alive and well. We're currently running RPG IV on an IBM Power System with IBM i 7.3

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 7

David Conn wrote:

Still using RPG. It's Alive and well. We're currently running RPG IV on an IBM Power System with IBM i 7.3

We finally decommissioned our last RPG programs within the last 2-3 years.

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