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Subject:Re: Expressing SQL in Design Doc From:towers1209-techwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:06:34 -0600
PL/SQL is _not_ case sensitive (as far as I know) so it does not really
matter. So capitalizing (or not) is a matter of readablilty and not
usability.
The only rule is -- be consistent.
> Hi all,
>
> I'm editing some info. Developer gives me description of a PL/SQL
> procedure, but he capitalizes all the SQL items in the description of the
> flow. I think only the SQL verbs should be capped, but he's got'em all
> capped--nouns & verbs.
>
> Example (truncated for proprietary code):
:
:
> I'm mostly interested in the ROW and ROWSET. My convention and my
> understanding of the appropriate approach would be to capitalize only
> words such as WHERE and GET and SELECT, but not words such as row and
> rowset and column and so on.
>
> Comments?
>
> Grazie,
>
> joe
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