GilaMonster (3/16/2015)

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The worst comment I've ever seen (as opposed to one I wrote) was in MS Access. The previous developer had written a lot of profanity-filled comments. Anyone who's worked...

Phil Parkin (3/16/2015)

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GilaMonster (3/16/2015)

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The worst comment I've ever seen (as opposed to one I wrote) was in MS Access. The previous developer had written a lot of profanity-filled comments. Anyone...

In my experience when a question is asked by someone who has made an attempt most people are more willing to help. This goes across the board, not just SQL...

I am all in favour of bringing all options to the table but sincerely hope that we do not allow statistics to start to rule medical science. I have no...

Eric M Russell (3/13/2015)

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Microsoft Team Foundation Server has a feature in it's source control where you can compare one version of a source file to another past version, and it...

william.trudell 38765 (3/13/2015)

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The real question is should you read and depend comments in code. Even a good comment could be left from previous versions and even small changes could change...

Phil Parkin (3/13/2015)

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Going off on a slight tangent, what about bad error messages?

I've just had this one in SSIS:

Executing the query "exec ..." failed with the following error: "Package...

Eirikur Eiriksson (3/13/2015)

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Gary Varga (3/13/2015)

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Toby Harman (3/13/2015)

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Many years ago I found a comment by my boss in the code which read something along the lines of

-- Don't touch this code

--...

Stuart Davies (3/13/2015)

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Phil Parkin (3/13/2015)

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Superfluous comments are worse than no comments. You know the type:

--Find the average

select @avg = avg(x)

Reminds me of those people who, when doing presentations, just recite...

The performance issue is probably down to it being a huge log. I believe that if you know the source as well that this would filter it quicker.

Also, I would...

No comments aside, my least favourite style of commenting is one that breaks encapsulation. I have seen comments that describe how a call is implemented at the point of making...

I was going to try and say "no comment" in a witty way but as I am not first to highlight the issue (and I am not always that witty)...

Toby Harman (3/13/2015)

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Many years ago I found a comment by my boss in the code which read something along the lines of

-- Don't touch this code

-- It does fancy statistical...

jasona.work (3/12/2015)

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Gary Varga (3/12/2015)

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Due to the uncertainty of the result of a data breach combined with the uncertainty of who has been affected and to what degree, I am in...

Due to the uncertainty of the result of a data breach combined with the uncertainty of who has been affected and to what degree, I am in favour of sanctions...