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Re: What is your favourite meta-syntactic variable name?

by chacham (Prior)
on Oct 01, 2014 at 15:05 UTC ( [id://1102550]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to What is your favourite meta-syntactic variable name?

I tend to use A and B. Why use something longer?

As it so happens, i added the following comment to a VIEW just this morning:

-- This causes a problem as ROLLUP adds a record even if it already ex
+ists in the data. For example:
--  WITH A AS (SELECT NULL A FROM Dual), B AS (SELECT A FROM A GROUP B
+Y ROLLUP(A)) SELECT Rownum, A FROM B

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Re^2: What is your favourite meta-syntactic variable name?
by tobyink (Canon) on Oct 02, 2014 at 00:04 UTC
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      Good point. In that case, i'd probably use my other favorites, moo and cow. :)

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