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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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Richard Deeming20-Jun-13 1:36
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Mohammed Hameed24-Jun-13 2:37
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GeneralRelational database reinvented as a flat file... Pin
johnsyd19-Jun-13 19:58
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AlexCode19-Jun-13 20:25
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johnsyd19-Jun-13 21:22
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AlexCode19-Jun-13 21:26
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Richard Deeming20-Jun-13 1:32
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jim lahey20-Jun-13 1:57
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GeneralWhy stick to just one database? Pin
johnsyd19-Jun-13 17:52
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krumia19-Jun-13 17:55
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johnsyd19-Jun-13 18:07
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PIEBALDconsult19-Jun-13 18:37
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vonb19-Jun-13 19:25
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AlexCode19-Jun-13 20:23
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Adriaan Davel19-Jun-13 21:55
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Gaston Verelst19-Jun-13 20:28
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cjb11019-Jun-13 21:15
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johnsyd25-Jun-13 15:01
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Adriaan Davel19-Jun-13 21:59
Adriaan Davel19-Jun-13 21:59 
"Best practice" or "Common pattern", people tend to confuse the 2... Best practice will have justification(s), common pattern probably won't. Best practice is best for specific reasons / conditions, and those will tell you if it applies to you. Try to get the detail of the best practice and you are likely to find out that it is more common pattern.

Something like this sounds more like common pattern than best practice, but I still don't see the advantage / point of doing it.

IT people (including me) tend to over complicate things, this sounds like one of those.
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Richard Deeming20-Jun-13 1:30
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