• (unregistered) in reply to Blue

    Oh, well in that case...word up! [H]

  • (unregistered)

    This reminds me of 'Magic - Total Service Desk' we use at work. The tables have strange names of 8 characters long, and the columns have no naming convention whatsoever. Some include spaces, others use camel casing, and others use underscores. A mess to handle...

    BTW. I do use one letter shortcuts in queries, ie:

    SELECT * FROM tbdPeople P
    INNER JOIN tbdMoney M ON P.fldID = M.fldOwnerID

    Is this considered bad practice too?

  • (cs) in reply to

    I do that one letter thing too.  Makes sense to me, but then, so far, I'm the only one who has to read it.  I'm sure if ever I leave this company that my predecessor will be submitting some of my code to this site

    [:P]

  • (cs) in reply to
    :

    This reminds me of 'Magic - Total Service Desk' we use at work. The tables have strange names of 8 characters long, and the columns have no naming convention whatsoever. Some include spaces, others use camel casing, and others use underscores. A mess to handle...

    BTW. I do use one letter shortcuts in queries, ie:

    SELECT * FROM tbdPeople P
    INNER JOIN tbdMoney M ON P.fldID = M.fldOwnerID

    Is this considered bad practice too?

     

    Hello there.

    I'm afraid I'm the guy who submitted this WTF.  Thanks for the commiseration.

    Anyway, I've seen the shortcuts in queries like you're talking about, and they really don't bother me that much.  At least in that case, a descriptive name for the table is existent and present close to the shortcut.

  • (unregistered) in reply to Goudinov

    <FONT size=2> Me wrote:</FONT>

    <FONT size=2>[image]</FONT> ????? wrote:
    gente is spanish for people, so that's how you could name the people column 'g'.
    Maybe it's Italian or French!  You ever think of THAT!?!?!

    Of course not! In French it might be something like 'gens', but HTF would I know what people is in Italian?

  • (unregistered) in reply to

    Face facts. A troll is a benign fantasy character. The creature you should be referencing is an ORC! Trust me on this. I know.

    I didn't think the Cave troll in Moria was so benign, or else the Fellowship of the Ring was just plain mean to run away for him.

    And the trolls that nearly caught Bilbo Baggins were arguing all night about how to - benignly, I'm sure - cook the hobbit before petrifying in the sunlight.

    I think their main characteristing is being dumb. 

  • (cs) in reply to
    Anonymous Individual:

    I think their main characteristing is being dumb. 



    I think you hit the nail on the head there!
  • (cs)

    Cool database!

    I think they used obsucator on databes instead of .net assembly [:D]

  • (unregistered)

    That's what I was taught in school as being called "Job Security" too bad the guys not around anymore...

  • Anton (unregistered)

    this....is.....EXACTLY how our old school management system was made and worked...except perhaps the table names weren't THAT encrypted.

  • (cs) in reply to UncleMidriff
    UncleMidriff:
    :

    This reminds me of 'Magic - Total Service Desk' we use at work. The tables have strange names of 8 characters long, and the columns have no naming convention whatsoever. Some include spaces, others use camel casing, and others use underscores. A mess to handle...

    BTW. I do use one letter shortcuts in queries, ie:

    SELECT * FROM tbdPeople P
    INNER JOIN tbdMoney M ON P.fldID = M.fldOwnerID

    Is this considered bad practice too?

     

    Hello there.

    I'm afraid I'm the guy who submitted this WTF.  Thanks for the commiseration.

    Anyway, I've seen the shortcuts in queries like you're talking about, and they really don't bother me that much.  At least in that case, a descriptive name for the table is existent and present close to the shortcut.

    Yeah, I actually quite like it when you see those single character shortcuts/aliases:

    <FONT face="Courier New">

    <FONT size=2>select i.p_id q,
           x.t_m_desc l,
           g.d_desc y,
           h.date t
    from t_s_d_m h, t_t_m x, t_p i,
         t_r g, t_r_m z
    where q = x.p_id
      and q = h.p_id
      and z.r_id = g.id
      and z.m_id = h.id
      and x.m_id = h.id
    order by h, q desc</FONT>

    </FONT>... so simple.

    However, UncleMidriff (if that is indeed your real name), I think perhaps you are missing the point of what the seasoned veteren was attempting. He clearly wanted to teach younger, less experienced developers according to the Berenstain method.

    Either that, or 'seasoned veteren' and 'senile old coot' are interchangeable.

    BTW people, real life trolls live under bridges and harrass goats. Everyone knows that.

  • n (unregistered) in reply to prakash

    <font style="background-color: #efefef">Gone are those days when ppl used to think that bits and bytes consume memory.</font>

    Yeah. But still, thank god you saved a few bytes by typing 'ppl' instead of 'people'.

     

    Sorry to be a snark, and so long after the original posting, I just couldn't help it...

  • n (unregistered) in reply to n
    Anonymous:

    <font style="background-color: #efefef">Gone are those days when ppl used to think that bits and bytes consume memory.</font>

    Yeah. But still, thank god you saved a few bytes by typing 'ppl' instead of 'people'.

     

    Sorry to be a snark, and so long after the original posting, I just couldn't help it...

     

    ah, there's the quote button!

  • someone (unregistered) in reply to n
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:

    <font style="background-color: #efefef">Gone are those days when ppl used to think that bits and bytes consume memory.</font>

    Yeah. But still, thank god you saved a few bytes by typing 'ppl' instead of 'people'.

     

    Sorry to be a snark, and so long after the original posting, I just couldn't help it...

     

    ah, there's the quote button!

    you mean q_btn

    /captcha pacman 

  • (cs) in reply to
    Anonymous:

    Bellinghman:
    Actually, 'troll' used to mean someone who trolls. As in fishing, and nothing to do with those nasty creatures from Tolkien and elsewhere. A troll was someone who went onto a newsgroup or a mailing list with inflamatory remarks, trying to catch someone who would take him seriously and get a flame war going.

    Face facts. A troll is a benign fantasy character. The creature you should be referencing is an ORC! Trust me on this. I know.

    Trolls were originally Scandinavian non-human monsters of various sorts that were going to align with Loki (Loge) and the giants against the gods and men in Ragnarok.  Not that this is currently important, but it did originally refer to an evil dwarf/elf/whatever.

  • k20878 (unregistered) in reply to

    I think the term comes from fishing where trolling means to drag bait along the bottom or behind the boat and wait for a bite.

  • Dan H. (unregistered) in reply to

    I always thought that the term referred to a fishing technique called trolling, which consists of attaching something tasty to a set of hooks, chucking it in a body of water then slowly dragging it along the bottom until some hungry idiot fish takes a bite at it.

    The standard trolling technique on the net is to come out with some utterly idiotic comment, then when someone else points out that this is in fact the deranged witterings of a moron, exclaim that you were just pretending to have fewer IQ points than fingers and in reality are a high genius, way too smart to be hanging about making inane jokes on obscure web boards...

    The not-so-standard method is to post something that hits all the right buttons for a selected target group, yet is outrageous but not so wide of the mark that anyone can quite tell which it is. An example of the latter is a posting once made to the rec.pyrotechnics usenet group, from someone who styled themselves "Stumpy", asking for a bomb recipe in Braille to be posted to them.

    "Do not feed the troll" is a warning, meaning that the previous poster is just out looking for a reaction and that we can really do without a flame-war starting on the topic.

    Finally, if I'm wrong, I do apologise in advance of the fact, and will stand corrected if you so choose.

  • Random Article Reader (unregistered)

    Why is this such an excellent example of bad practices? The icons in the corner of the app make me think it is written in VB.NET (besides the On Error Resume Next). Never mind the database issues either. Fun Fun.

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is saving these screenshots as JPEG instead of GIF/PNG.

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