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  • RE: XML Workshop XV - Accessing FOR XML results with ADO.NET

    Jacob,

    I like the series but have a question. I don't understand the purpose of the following code...

    //Read the data from XMLReader and Load into

    ...

    March 12, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    #788756

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    Karma (3/6/2008)

    Hi,

    Interesting topic 🙂

    Does anyone else think it's slightly obtuse to spend time creating naming standards for tables and then alias them in code with something so meaning less as...

    March 6, 2008 at 10:36 am

    #786195

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    Tom Garth

    Regarding you standards document. Funny thing. The code sections showed a font named 'Letter Gothic MT'. My machine with Office 2k7 displayed it as a 3 of 9 barcode...

    March 6, 2008 at 6:43 am

    #785914

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    Jeff,

    Good to hear from you again. As you requested, I attached a copy of the spec I follow. It took me a while to find it. Had...

    March 6, 2008 at 4:24 am

    #785861

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    Could be my faulty memory. I thought I remembered a post that went to the effect of "why are you wasting your time on this". If I was...

    March 5, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    #785845

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    xmlish short hand for stating it's an opinion. Or, was the "huh?" that you didn't understand the why and where of that comment?

    March 5, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    #785830

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    GSquared

    So, what you're saying is that "first column pain" is less than "last column pain"? Because all the columns in between are handled exactly the same in either case.

    I guess...

    March 5, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    #785828

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    dean gross (3/5/2008)

    XML and HTML have standard formatting conventions, and when I use tools to write this type of code the tools have a menu option to apply the standards...

    March 5, 2008 at 10:17 am

    #785617

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    Jeff, you're so right on so much if only you'd come the the bright side and embrace comma beginnings. Like it you would, hmm.

    March 4, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    #785202

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    Jeff Moden

    SQL is supposed to be an "english like language"... in English, we don't start new lines with a comma. I guess I can understand why some people might like...

    March 4, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    #785128

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    Tom Garth

    I haevn't heard an argument yet that would convince me to give up the much more aesthetically pleasing comma last scripting.

    I had that same attitude until I was...

    March 4, 2008 at 8:55 am

    #785004

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    Matt Miller (3/4/2008)

    I may need to go back to high school then. I recently installed MSOffice 2007 on one of my machines - and the UI is a disaster...

    March 4, 2008 at 8:46 am

    #784998

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    I just don't get the verb-object (VO) naming style as opposed to the object-verb (OV) style. Using VO you get verbs are a prefix (which stinks).

    Let's say...

    March 4, 2008 at 8:41 am

    #784995

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    Jeff is the hero of the hour -- and maybe even longer!! I've been intending to add a document on code style to compliment the one on naming and...

    March 3, 2008 at 8:20 pm

    #784756

  • RE: How to lay out SQL Code

    Right on the money Steve for style #3 and the leading comma's are great. The only thing left for me would be tabs vs spaces. Personally, I prefer...

    March 2, 2008 at 10:52 am

    #784253

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