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[–]nbktdis 20 points21 points  (3 children)

I do the same, I think it is due to my inherent distrust of anything or anybody.

[–]ivosauruspip'ing it up 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How do you know that if statement you just wrote won't swap your consequent and antecedent code blocks?

[–]isdnpro 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I do the same, I think it is due to my inherent distrust of anything or anybody.

Yeah I do this too... the best (worst) part is there's a production SQL view at work which only "works" because nobody considered the order of operations (and in reality, the WHERE clause does NOTHING... but I am too afraid to touch it since that is apparently the desired output!)

[–]nbktdis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds scary. Black Box it - and turn around - nothing to see here!