Re: Expressing SQL in Design Doc

Subject: Re: Expressing SQL in Design Doc
From: jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:30:15 -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.
>

Right. Keep in mind, as my example showed, the question is not whether to
capitalize KRWs in code but in narrative paragraphs.

My question was, to SQL developers, how would they _expect_ to see the
keywords & reserved words (KRWs) expressed in explanatory text? So I went
to my main research facility for this type of question: Barnes & Noble ;)
Anyway, in a few third-party PL/SQL books, they cap all the KRWs...but in
a SQL book I skimmed, they capitalized only the initial letter of the KRW.
So, I've decided to cap all KRWs in my doc.

But I do appreciate your help.

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