SqlBits podcast

Liam Westley — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:50:10 GMT

Craig Murphy was wily enough to record an interview with both myself and fellow developer Matt Barrett after the SqlBits conference. Enhanced by the 80's music of Reading Bowl you can now experience the effect that several (free) pints of Guinness has on my diction;

http://www.craigmurphy.com/blog/?p=743

Thanks to Craig for the tidy editing (he must have done some, believe me).

What punishment fits the crime - SELECT with no ordering

Liam Westley — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:40:00 GMT

I'm busy maintaining a system which I didn't write, and keep hitting stored procedures which produce lists from drop down selections where it is a simple SELECT of two or three columns, with NO ORDER BY clause (or default sort in the database) to sort the list appropriately. I don't want to count the number of tickets in Trac I've dealt with on this one.

So what punishment do you think is justified for this heinous crime? Probably not the death penalty. In the UK maybe sitting through ten episodes of the sitcom 'My Family'; in the US sitting through ten minutes of a speech by John Kerry*?

* liam declines to reveal his political leanings, this is not political bias, just an indication of the level of boredom induced by Mr Kerry

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What punishment fits the crime - SELECT with no ordering