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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.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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Thomas Daniels19-Apr-13 7:28
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Gary R. Wheeler20-Apr-13 0:01
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R. Giskard Reventlov15-Apr-13 7:59
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Brady Kelly15-Apr-13 19:46
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R. Giskard Reventlov16-Apr-13 7:37
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Brady Kelly16-Apr-13 19:13
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jschell16-Apr-13 9:51
jschell16-Apr-13 9:51 
mark merrens wrote:
But why would anyone write it like that in the first place???


How else are you going to code a string which contains SQL? One really long line?

mark merrens wrote:
And let's not even begin to talk about why it should be a stored procedure...


Presumably you mean it should be a proc instead. Perhaps. But some procs might be rather long when expressed as a SQL string - so same problem.
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Brady Kelly16-Apr-13 21:45
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