Comments on: What is a “good” SQLServerPedia article? http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/10/what-is-a-good-sqlserverpedia-article/ Your technology pain-relief experts. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SQLServerPedia - The Best Community Owned SQL Server Training Resource « Dangling On The Shoulders Of Giants http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/10/what-is-a-good-sqlserverpedia-article/comment-page-1/#comment-6083 SQLServerPedia - The Best Community Owned SQL Server Training Resource « Dangling On The Shoulders Of Giants Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:37:10 +0000 http://www.brentozar.com/?p=1509#comment-6083 [...] Brent Ozar’s follow-up post, What is a “good” SQLServerPedia article?. And also, read SQL Batman’s take on [...] [...] Brent Ozar’s follow-up post, What is a “good” SQLServerPedia article?. And also, read SQL Batman’s take on [...]

]]> By: David Stein http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/10/what-is-a-good-sqlserverpedia-article/comment-page-1/#comment-6080 David Stein Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:05:41 +0000 http://www.brentozar.com/?p=1509#comment-6080 "A good article points to code that’s easy to reuse." I cannot stress that enough. When I'm looking for help with T-SQL syntax the code sample is the first thing I look for. I'd much rather learn by reading the code than something like: CASE input_expression WHEN when_expression THEN result_expression [ ...n ] [ ELSE else_result_expression ] END Searched CASE function: CASE WHEN Boolean_expression THEN result_expression [ ...n ] [ ELSE else_result_expression ] END “A good article points to code that’s easy to reuse.”

I cannot stress that enough. When I’m looking for help with T-SQL syntax the code sample is the first thing I look for. I’d much rather learn by reading the code than something like:

CASE input_expression
WHEN when_expression THEN result_expression
[ ...n ]
[
ELSE else_result_expression
]
END
Searched CASE function:
CASE
WHEN Boolean_expression THEN result_expression
[ ...n ]
[
ELSE else_result_expression
]
END

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