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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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jhwurmbach8-Nov-07 21:47
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Anthony Mushrow6-Nov-07 14:15
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Pete O'Hanlon6-Nov-07 22:58
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Jordanwb29-Jan-08 6:53
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GeneralSQL query - which version do you prefer? [modified] Pin
GuyThiebaut5-Nov-07 22:38
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Giorgi Dalakishvili5-Nov-07 23:23
mentorGiorgi Dalakishvili5-Nov-07 23:23 
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s.hatchard6-Nov-07 5:52
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GuyThiebaut6-Nov-07 9:28
professionalGuyThiebaut6-Nov-07 9:28 
Yes - it's a Mircosoft XAL database.

It would make more sense space-wise as well as a varchar, in this case, will take more space than an int type which only takes 4 bytes.
Microsoft bought the database from Navision who bought it from Daamgard before it was a SQL database.

Let that be a warning to database design - get it wrong at the beginning and you can be left with problems for the life of the product.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

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snorkie6-Nov-07 8:18
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Pete O'Hanlon6-Nov-07 23:12
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Phil Osborne6-Nov-07 23:22
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Russell Jones7-Nov-07 3:24
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar6-Nov-07 23:49
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Tomas Brennan19-Nov-07 4:53
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GeneralFor loop horror Pin
Llasus1-Nov-07 14:12
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Anton Afanasyev1-Nov-07 19:59
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