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So far this book has mostly focused on what we should do. It is also helpful to discuss the things we should not do. This chapter contains a list of anti-patterns – programming concepts and styles that we should avoid.
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Joel Spolsky has written about the problems with rewriting code from scratch: www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ .
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In version 12.2 we could also use this new syntax to handle conversion errors: TO_DATE(VALUE DEFAULT NULL ON CONVERSION ERROR, ‘YYYY-MM-DD’). While that function is perfectly safe, we still have to remember to use it every time we reference an unsafe column.
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Heller, J. (2019). Avoid Anti-Patterns. In: Pro Oracle SQL Development . Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4517-0_15
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