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  • July 27, 2011 at 2:00 pm

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    danschl (7/27/2011)

    around my office there is a saying

    Just because you can put it into one query doesnt me you should

    I would break that up:w00t:

    Or at the very least add brevity. 😉

    Aliases could be used and the column names could surely be shortened without losing any clarity. I would bet the overall character count could be reduced by 2/3 which would increase the readability by somewhere around 1.473894e23141%.

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