Comments on: My personal SQL coding standards http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/04/26/sql-coding-standards/ Stay curious! Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:32:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ron http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/04/26/sql-coding-standards/#comment-18439 Ron Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:46:23 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=114#comment-18439 Commas in front of the statement might be ugly but NOT hard to maintain. That you can easyly comment out any column with comma in front is the only reason they are there. Commas in front of the statement might be ugly but NOT hard to maintain. That you can easyly comment out any column with comma in front is the only reason they are there.

]]> By: Meir http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/04/26/sql-coding-standards/#comment-17085 Meir Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:19:36 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=114#comment-17085 Thanks everyone for your encouragement! I wonder if any of you are using the MySQL Workbench? (I read its documentation but setting it up and importing the DB schema intimidated me so I passed. The GUI Query Browser worked so far fine for me, thank you! Do you think however that should I try it?) Anyway, does the WB query editor highlight it so? If not, anyone who is a WB user, please post a request for this type of highlight. I personally don't think I should if I am not at least a newbie user. Thanks! Meir Thanks everyone for your encouragement!
I wonder if any of you are using the MySQL Workbench?
(I read its documentation but setting it up and importing the DB schema intimidated me so I passed. The GUI Query Browser worked so far fine for me, thank you! Do you think however that should I try it?)
Anyway, does the WB query editor highlight it so? If not, anyone who is a WB user, please post a request for this type of highlight. I personally don’t think I should if I am not at least a newbie user.
Thanks!
Meir

]]> By: Marcus http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/04/26/sql-coding-standards/#comment-17081 Marcus Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:34 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=114#comment-17081 Hi Meir, that's indeed an excellent idea, in my career I've also had to face "some" statements that where a few hundred lines and had a lot of subqueries in every flavour... If any SQL editor developer reads this: do it! And if you're alread implementing this, what about nested function calls? There were numerous times in my life when I spend endless minutes analyzing the structure of some DECODE ... SUBSTRING ... INSTRING ... LENGTH ... -1 ... SUBSTRING SUBSTRING SUBSTRING constructs that were just driving me crazy. Code folding would also be nice there... ;-) Hi Meir,

that’s indeed an excellent idea, in my career I’ve also had to face “some” statements that where a few hundred lines and had a lot of subqueries in every flavour…

If any SQL editor developer reads this: do it!

And if you’re alread implementing this, what about nested function calls? There were numerous times in my life when I spend endless minutes analyzing the structure of some DECODE … SUBSTRING … INSTRING … LENGTH … -1 … SUBSTRING SUBSTRING SUBSTRING constructs that were just driving me crazy.

Code folding would also be nice there…

;-)

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/04/26/sql-coding-standards/#comment-17080 Xaprb Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:25:58 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=114#comment-17080 Meir, that's a great idea. I would appreciate that too. Meir, that’s a great idea. I would appreciate that too.

]]> By: Meir http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/04/26/sql-coding-standards/#comment-17079 Meir Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:16:38 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=114#comment-17079 One highlighting approach I never sow in SQL editors is to mark the extent and scope of a sub-query. It would be nice to immediatly visualize where a query starts and where it ends and what is it alias. With a convoluted and long querry, replate with joins and three or more levels of sub-queries, it is not that easy to visualize... One highlighting approach I never sow in SQL editors is to mark the extent and scope of a sub-query.
It would be nice to immediatly visualize where a query starts and where it ends and what is it alias.
With a convoluted and long querry, replate with joins and three or more levels of sub-queries, it is not that easy to visualize…

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