Crazy About Constants
Mar 28

Crazy About Constants

Enterprise SQL: This gets more and more absurd the more I look at it. I can’t imagine working on this app — when did SQL become evil? I really want to know what’s in the snipped section.

I think we need constants for the English langauge:

define('A', 'A');
define('B', 'B');

Steve McConnell is big on constants, and I wrote him once to see if I should break table and column names into constants. I think he said no, but I can’t remember.

With a good O-R mapper, that stuff gets less relevant anyway.

by Deane   March 28, 2006 10:54 PM   |
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SQL

Comments

by Joseph Scott,   March 29, 2006 12:55 AM  

This is classic! I've looked at some abusive SQL code before but this takes the cake.

by Matt Smith,   March 29, 2006 1:16 AM  

I agree about using a good O-R mapper

by Deane,   March 29, 2006 8:03 AM  

Yeah, good O-R mappers are really handy.

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