The Recording
The Panelists
- Kevin Feasel
- Mala Mahadevan
Notes: Questions and Topics
Mike to Be on the SQL Data Partners Podcast
Our first topic of the night is that Mike Chrestensen will be a future guest on the SQL Data Partners podcast, where we talk a bit about generative AI. Sadly, Mike wasn’t able to make it to this episode, so we had to talk about him rather than with him.
SQL Style Guide
The primary topic for this evening was Simon Holywell’s SQL Style Guide. We spent a lot of time on it and my short version: I like that there is a style guide, agree with about 25% of it, don’t care much either way about 25% of it, and hate 50% of it. I don’t think I get into too many proper rants, but I also don’t pull any punches. There was some great chat engagement from Anders and Solomon as well, and we had our own internal debates, showing just how contentious style ideas are.
sp_ Procedures Are Bad
The final topic for the evening was an article from Louis Davidson, showing yet another reason why you shouldn’t preface stored procedures with sp_, particularly if you don’t expect to create them in the master database and run them from the context of other databases.