"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote in message 
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> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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>> I took over (technically) at one place and made the rule that such was
>> disallowed.
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> The last coding standard I wrote was 6 pages long. Included things like:
> No cursors
> Don't distinct every
> Don't use functions on columns in the where clause
> Don't use SELECT *
> All tables shall have a primary key
> Evaluate all new tables (and modified existing tables) for indexes
>
> Pity none of the devs bother reading it. It would save them some time when 
> I
> review their code. <evil grin>

It's a good list, but it's rather sad that this isn't common-sense, isn't 
it?  :-)

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