RE: EXPLAIN OUTPUT

When I say in their scripts - I mean within the SQL Block itself. Of course there should be comments in the program.

Sam

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I dunno about _bad_ practice, but I tend to beat developers around the head and shoulders who DON'T put comments in there scripts. It makes it easier to follow what they think ther are doing and for others to later modify the script to change what it is doing.

Terry

"Sam P. Roberts (ZADCO ITIS)" wrote:

> Some of our developers put '--' i.e. comments in their SQL.
> This is painful when trying to extract the SQL to explain (screws
dbartisan
> up as well) .
> Does anybody have an SQL Query that can help or point me to a manual or
> paper that says it is bad practice to put comments inside SQL blocks.
>
> Regards
>
> Sam
>
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