I was reading Eric Lippert's blog post, and came across the following quote: ''uncertainty erodes confidence in our users that we have a quality product that was designed with deep thought, implemented with care, and behaves predictably and sensibly''. How very true. By default, the code we are developing should run in exactly the same way ...

It is well known that SELECT * is not acceptable in production code, with the exception of this pattern: IF EXISTS(SELECT *    We all know that whenever we see code code like this: Listing 1. ''Bad'' SQL ...