The 5 stages reviewing bad TSQL

Posted by Mike Femenella on SQL Team See other posts from SQL Team or by Mike Femenella
Published on Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:56:10 GMT Indexed on 2012/05/30 16:51 UTC
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I'm working with an app team that is light on TSQL expertise this week and couldn't help but draw a parallel to the 5 stages of grieving.

Denial: There’s nothing wrong with the code SQL Server has a bug in it. There is a network problem.
Anger: You’re doing what in your code?! Why on earth are you doing that? That’s crazy.
Bargaining: Fine you can keep your cursor but let’s speed things up a bit.
Depression: Ugh, this is so horrible I’m never going to be able to fix all of it.
Acceptance: Ok, we’re screwed and we know we’re screwed. This is going to hurt…