@asgs One of the grads that joined our firm. General meeting with the data team and the director asked why all our tables had indexes on every field, the grad said "I thought that makes them run faster". We laughed. We laughed loud.

@samk Terrifying. This isn't even an ancient system, it was online 2008 to 2015.

@cahva Or even worse, when people combine tables and mix between lower, upper, space and underscores from field to field!!! Current client is a major bank in London and we aggregated how many variations of the field 'account number' they send us in data extracts - 19!!! And one of their rules is we have to keep the field names the same as the raw data!!

@sylar182 The right one?! You heathen! :)

@Archimedyz Only I trust the other shift but not the other ctrl or alt!

Anything by Bjarne and Effective C++ by Scott Meyers

@shasha Amen to that.

"I'm smarter than you". Or this bloke only works on his own code that nobody else does.

@Archimedyz Don't you have two? :). On a serious note, there's an older chap and he presses Caps Lock to do it...

@drRoss Genius on her half.

All are legit, but Nano?!

@Marnsghol The joke isn't as funny if I said she said true or 1. Actually, on here that would probably work. Among general friends, it wouldn't.

Yup. So, I'm stuck with having to code in Management Studio.

@drRoss by downloading the installer and copying over to the server. It's a grim life been a dev on there!

Yes. Client is a large bank (City of London) and data security rules (from the bank) mean the server on which we store and work on the data can't have Internet access. I've tried sublime, atom, etc even with their own Vim plugings. My background is working on Unix and I just feel infinitely slower at writing/editing code.

@drRoss I know but for one Vim doesn't work great on Windows and especially when you are working on a server with no Internet connection due to the sensitive nature of the data stored. I'm all ears if you have any solutions :(

Never too late. Dive in and never look back. Make vast use of YouTube.

Arch. If you're not over comfortable with command line installation give Arch Anywhere a go. Makes installing a breeze and you won't get any unnecessary bloat.

@enchance Why not use two then? Or do you just find three aesthetically pleasing?

@khaledh Windows 7

@kkalem Previous job. Those dark time are behind me.

@DutchmanDavid SQL may take the biscuit for useless error messages. "blah blah near '.'" being a prime example

@sebastian Exactly, ',' on its own is not numeric!