polkadot (12/1/2015)
Seriously, does any team really have discussions about these things?
Yes, good teams do, because they know that making time to establish standards and practices saves time later on.
If the team doesn't agree on formatting standards and acceptable layouts, then everyone's going to code their own way and the team members will be wasting time changing formats again and again and struggling to read code, and so they'll be busier than they need to be.
It's the old "I don't have time to sharpen the axe, I have too much wood that needs chopping".
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability