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A single line of code from a large application that somehow manages to provide an almost endless insight into the pain that its maintainers face each day.

Jul 2009

The SQL String

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"Our Senior Architect likes the idea of keeping things simple," Stephen B, "no stored procedures, no parameterized queries... just simple, simple strings."

"So, in keeping up with the 'simplicity', following is one line of code from one of the business objects in one of the modules in one of the layers in our system. I think it speaks for itself."