[thelist] SQL Query Review

Hassan Schroeder hassan.schroeder at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 19:19:08 CDT 2008


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:54 PM, r937 <rudy at r937.com> wrote:

>  if you were to reference the columns by their names, the amount of effort to
>  double check that the variables are mapped correctly is zilch, zero, nada,
>  garnichts, rien a va plus

and, for someone joining your team,  the readabiity of your code will
be immeasurably enhanced.

I sometimes do minor maintenance work on existing PHP, and it's
/so/ painful -- i.e., such a time sink for me -- finding someone's used
that numeric approach; I always fix that before proceeding...

FWIW,
-- 
Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder at gmail.com



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