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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
GeneralRe: Are you sure that it's not null? Pin
Lutosław30-Jul-10 2:20
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GeneralYAVH - Yet another VBA horror Pin
Rob Grainger22-Jul-10 1:13
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Oakman22-Jul-10 3:09
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Dan Pratt22-Jul-10 3:25
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Rob Grainger26-Jul-10 5:59
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Hired Mind22-Jul-10 7:12
Hired Mind22-Jul-10 7:12 
Eeeewww.

Yeah I would definitely change that code. But if you do change it, make sure you change it to use query parameters instead of building SQL from scratch. It's not so bad when the tablename is hard-coded into the method itself but if passed in from outside, it's a huge security hole. (Some future slave might decide to call the method with user-provided input, and it won't be properly escaped)

It's so hard to find good slaves today...
Before .NET 4.0,
object Universe = NULL;

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