Sometimes you just need to CodingHorror it!

The title of this post is a tongue-in-cheek reference to SubSonic’s inline query by the same name, which in turn is a reference to the blogger Jeff Atwood’s blog who you should all know. Rob Conery, the SubSonic project leader, named the inline query class CodingHorror after he allegedly read Jeff Atwood’s post titled Embracing Languages Inside Languages, in which he bestowed the virtues of inline SQL inside your code, instead of the standard bequeathed statement that I bet you all have heard “We do all database work in stored procedures.”. Jeff outlined his though process on ad-hoc vs stored procs as follows: ...

December 3, 2009 · 4 min · 672 words · Nick Berardi