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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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Ashish Kaila19-Nov-10 6:39
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mathomp319-Nov-10 2:38
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Worse I had to deal with was single letters that weren't related.

for example
Table names A_EmployeeInformation, B_EmployeePay, A_EmployeeSpouseInfo, C_PayHistory

I asked the database guy um why the letters, he said it grouped them by function and I should know that being a DBA for 5 years, and then questioned if I knew anything about Database design. It was at that moment I had fears over the database, and I was right, cause then we started seeing AA, and BB for tables that were reference tables, and my favorites were the ABC tables reference table used by A, B, C tables.

Was so glad when I was removed from that program for a bigger profile one.
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