POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : The Daily WTF [again] : Re: The Daily WTF [again] Server Time
21 Jul 2025 21:58:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Daily WTF [again]  
From: Orchid XP v7
Date: 12 Feb 2008 15:18:04
Message: <47b1fefc$1@news.povray.org>
Gail Shaw wrote:

> 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

Just being curios... What's a 'cursor', and why is that bad?

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.