Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Code Project
  1. Home
  2. The Lounge
  3. Because THAT'S what we should be worrying about...

Because THAT'S what we should be worrying about...

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved The Lounge
oraclecomsysadminquestionannouncement
43 Posts 25 Posters 0 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • L leckey 0

    Okay, so been at the new job for about 6 months. Oracle is not my favorite, but it's work. I sent some code to the "code review" group and our very cranky DBA said she did not approve it because it had...drumroll...TOO MANY COMMENTS. WTF? Comments in code up until now has been non-existent and she's worried that too many comments will just fill up the server. This coming from an Oracle DBA who has not recreated any indexes on tables in over 6 years (oh and I've found dozens that need it) and this is what she wants to kvetch about? Has anyone ever run across "too many comments" before? I've only heard "not enough" in the past.

    Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

    L Offline
    L Offline
    Lost User
    wrote on last edited by
    #5

    leckey wrote:

    she's worried that too many comments will just fill up the server

    She is a DBA in name only. That is sad. Very, very sad.

    leckey wrote:

    Has anyone ever run across "too many comments" before?

    Nope. I've told people that specific comments were inappropriate or confusing but never "too many".

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • D Daniel Tak M

      Maybe you should remove any whitespaces that are not necessary (like, who needs indention). Could save some bytes...

      L Offline
      L Offline
      leckey 0
      wrote on last edited by
      #6

      Oh, I am so thinking of going all "passive-agressive" on her and doing that next time. :laugh:

      Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • L leckey 0

        I miss the testosterone. They are not as bad as the Chatty Cathy's I used to work with thankfully. My boss is female (haven't had that for several years) and she's very much in synch with me personality-wise so I am very thankful for that!

        Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

        N Offline
        N Offline
        Nish Nishant
        wrote on last edited by
        #7

        leckey wrote:

        I miss the testosterone.

        :laugh:

        Regards, Nish


        Blog: blog.voidnish.com

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • L leckey 0

          Okay, so been at the new job for about 6 months. Oracle is not my favorite, but it's work. I sent some code to the "code review" group and our very cranky DBA said she did not approve it because it had...drumroll...TOO MANY COMMENTS. WTF? Comments in code up until now has been non-existent and she's worried that too many comments will just fill up the server. This coming from an Oracle DBA who has not recreated any indexes on tables in over 6 years (oh and I've found dozens that need it) and this is what she wants to kvetch about? Has anyone ever run across "too many comments" before? I've only heard "not enough" in the past.

          Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

          N Offline
          N Offline
          Nish Nishant
          wrote on last edited by
          #8

          For some reason, I imagine you to be someone like the fictional Carrie Heffernan :-D

          Regards, Nish


          Blog: blog.voidnish.com

          L 1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • L leckey 0

            Okay, so been at the new job for about 6 months. Oracle is not my favorite, but it's work. I sent some code to the "code review" group and our very cranky DBA said she did not approve it because it had...drumroll...TOO MANY COMMENTS. WTF? Comments in code up until now has been non-existent and she's worried that too many comments will just fill up the server. This coming from an Oracle DBA who has not recreated any indexes on tables in over 6 years (oh and I've found dozens that need it) and this is what she wants to kvetch about? Has anyone ever run across "too many comments" before? I've only heard "not enough" in the past.

            Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

            E Offline
            E Offline
            Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
            wrote on last edited by
            #9

            Lead: "Ennis, I like your code but there are too many comments. We don't like our code base full of comments." Ennis: "If you don't like my comments you can remove them" Lead: "We expect you to follow out standards" Ennis: "Fire me" They never did. The bottom line is the incompetent don't like quality because it removes their importance but what they don't like more than quality is waves. Stand-up for yourself, and donate $0.25 to pay for 1 gig of comments to cover the entire teams comments for a century.

            Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. I also do Android Programming as I find it a refreshing break from the MS. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost

            L 1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • L leckey 0

              Okay, so been at the new job for about 6 months. Oracle is not my favorite, but it's work. I sent some code to the "code review" group and our very cranky DBA said she did not approve it because it had...drumroll...TOO MANY COMMENTS. WTF? Comments in code up until now has been non-existent and she's worried that too many comments will just fill up the server. This coming from an Oracle DBA who has not recreated any indexes on tables in over 6 years (oh and I've found dozens that need it) and this is what she wants to kvetch about? Has anyone ever run across "too many comments" before? I've only heard "not enough" in the past.

              Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

              D Offline
              D Offline
              Dave Parker
              wrote on last edited by
              #10

              Haha I've actually encountered other developers under the delusion that comments slow the program down and wanting to delete them all prior to the compiled and build system going out!

              L W 2 Replies Last reply
              0
              • L leckey 0

                Okay, so been at the new job for about 6 months. Oracle is not my favorite, but it's work. I sent some code to the "code review" group and our very cranky DBA said she did not approve it because it had...drumroll...TOO MANY COMMENTS. WTF? Comments in code up until now has been non-existent and she's worried that too many comments will just fill up the server. This coming from an Oracle DBA who has not recreated any indexes on tables in over 6 years (oh and I've found dozens that need it) and this is what she wants to kvetch about? Has anyone ever run across "too many comments" before? I've only heard "not enough" in the past.

                Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

                H Offline
                H Offline
                Henry Minute
                wrote on last edited by
                #11

                I'll refrain from commenting. Don't want to fill up The Lounge. :)

                Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

                G 1 Reply Last reply
                0
                • L leckey 0

                  Okay, so been at the new job for about 6 months. Oracle is not my favorite, but it's work. I sent some code to the "code review" group and our very cranky DBA said she did not approve it because it had...drumroll...TOO MANY COMMENTS. WTF? Comments in code up until now has been non-existent and she's worried that too many comments will just fill up the server. This coming from an Oracle DBA who has not recreated any indexes on tables in over 6 years (oh and I've found dozens that need it) and this is what she wants to kvetch about? Has anyone ever run across "too many comments" before? I've only heard "not enough" in the past.

                  Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

                  P Offline
                  P Offline
                  peterchen
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #12

                  Girls at work! *ducks*

                  Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
                  | FoldWithUs! | sighist | WhoIncludes - Analyzing C++ include file hierarchy

                  L 1 Reply Last reply
                  0
                  • L leckey 0

                    Okay, so been at the new job for about 6 months. Oracle is not my favorite, but it's work. I sent some code to the "code review" group and our very cranky DBA said she did not approve it because it had...drumroll...TOO MANY COMMENTS. WTF? Comments in code up until now has been non-existent and she's worried that too many comments will just fill up the server. This coming from an Oracle DBA who has not recreated any indexes on tables in over 6 years (oh and I've found dozens that need it) and this is what she wants to kvetch about? Has anyone ever run across "too many comments" before? I've only heard "not enough" in the past.

                    Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

                    C Offline
                    C Offline
                    Chris Meech
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #13

                    Don't tell her about the comments column associated with every table that Oracle has. She'd be losing sleep over that. :)

                    Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]

                    A 1 Reply Last reply
                    0
                    • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

                      Lead: "Ennis, I like your code but there are too many comments. We don't like our code base full of comments." Ennis: "If you don't like my comments you can remove them" Lead: "We expect you to follow out standards" Ennis: "Fire me" They never did. The bottom line is the incompetent don't like quality because it removes their importance but what they don't like more than quality is waves. Stand-up for yourself, and donate $0.25 to pay for 1 gig of comments to cover the entire teams comments for a century.

                      Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. I also do Android Programming as I find it a refreshing break from the MS. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost

                      L Offline
                      L Offline
                      leckey 0
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #14

                      Your statement on quality is kind of how I feel, but did not say (write) aloud. And comments are not even a standard here! After the discussion the standards were updated with "comments should be kept to a minimum." That's helpful.

                      Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

                      M 1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      • D Dave Parker

                        Haha I've actually encountered other developers under the delusion that comments slow the program down and wanting to delete them all prior to the compiled and build system going out!

                        L Offline
                        L Offline
                        leckey 0
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #15

                        Exactly! The compiler just ignores them. And are we really going to "fill up a server" with a few KBs of comments? Hope we don't buy any more assets--might not be enough room on the server to store those records!

                        Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

                        A 1 Reply Last reply
                        0
                        • L leckey 0

                          Okay, so been at the new job for about 6 months. Oracle is not my favorite, but it's work. I sent some code to the "code review" group and our very cranky DBA said she did not approve it because it had...drumroll...TOO MANY COMMENTS. WTF? Comments in code up until now has been non-existent and she's worried that too many comments will just fill up the server. This coming from an Oracle DBA who has not recreated any indexes on tables in over 6 years (oh and I've found dozens that need it) and this is what she wants to kvetch about? Has anyone ever run across "too many comments" before? I've only heard "not enough" in the past.

                          Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

                          A Offline
                          A Offline
                          AspDotNetDev
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #16

                          Unless every few lines of code has ASCII art murals or you are commenting with things like "this is an if statement -- it provides the ability to conditionally execute a branch of code. A branch of code is...", I very much doubt you have too many comments. At my last job, everybody seemed to be opposed to any formatting or code comments.

                          [Forum Guidelines]

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          0
                          • D Dave Parker

                            Haha I've actually encountered other developers under the delusion that comments slow the program down and wanting to delete them all prior to the compiled and build system going out!

                            W Offline
                            W Offline
                            wolfbinary
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #17

                            If the idiots who thought that knew anything about compilers, never mind. :doh:

                            That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            0
                            • H Henry Minute

                              I'll refrain from commenting. Don't want to fill up The Lounge. :)

                              Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

                              G Offline
                              G Offline
                              Gary Wheeler
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #18

                              Any further comment would be, well, superfluous.

                              Software Zen: delete this;

                              T 1 Reply Last reply
                              0
                              • N Nish Nishant

                                For some reason, I imagine you to be someone like the fictional Carrie Heffernan :-D

                                Regards, Nish


                                Blog: blog.voidnish.com

                                L Offline
                                L Offline
                                leckey 0
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #19

                                I had to look that one up--never watched King of Queens. On Wikipedia, the end of the article states: Carrie is a fierce and sarcastic character and is frequently deemed as scary by other characters... Yep, that would be me. :laugh:

                                Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

                                N 1 Reply Last reply
                                0
                                • L leckey 0

                                  Okay, so been at the new job for about 6 months. Oracle is not my favorite, but it's work. I sent some code to the "code review" group and our very cranky DBA said she did not approve it because it had...drumroll...TOO MANY COMMENTS. WTF? Comments in code up until now has been non-existent and she's worried that too many comments will just fill up the server. This coming from an Oracle DBA who has not recreated any indexes on tables in over 6 years (oh and I've found dozens that need it) and this is what she wants to kvetch about? Has anyone ever run across "too many comments" before? I've only heard "not enough" in the past.

                                  Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

                                  W Offline
                                  W Offline
                                  wolfbinary
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #20

                                  Just delete all the CRLF and make it one long line. you wouldn't want to waste space on returns and such. :rolleyes:

                                  That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_

                                  L 1 Reply Last reply
                                  0
                                  • C Chris Meech

                                    Don't tell her about the comments column associated with every table that Oracle has. She'd be losing sleep over that. :)

                                    Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]

                                    A Offline
                                    A Offline
                                    AspDotNetDev
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #21

                                    Yeah, she might decide to nip it in the bud and put a trigger on that column that erases any comments that are inserted.

                                    [Forum Guidelines]

                                    1 Reply Last reply
                                    0
                                    • L leckey 0

                                      Exactly! The compiler just ignores them. And are we really going to "fill up a server" with a few KBs of comments? Hope we don't buy any more assets--might not be enough room on the server to store those records!

                                      Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

                                      A Offline
                                      A Offline
                                      AspDotNetDev
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #22

                                      If there is enough code to fill up the server, it would probably be good to have enough code comments to explain that giant mess.

                                      [Forum Guidelines]

                                      1 Reply Last reply
                                      0
                                      • P peterchen

                                        Girls at work! *ducks*

                                        Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
                                        | FoldWithUs! | sighist | WhoIncludes - Analyzing C++ include file hierarchy

                                        L Offline
                                        L Offline
                                        leckey 0
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #23

                                        I concur! Now stop ducking.

                                        Yeah, I need to update this. Darn Judge Judy reruns! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

                                        P 1 Reply Last reply
                                        0
                                        • G Gary Wheeler

                                          Any further comment would be, well, superfluous.

                                          Software Zen: delete this;

                                          T Offline
                                          T Offline
                                          TheyCallMeMrJames
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #24

                                          I agree wholeheartedly. I won't comment here either.

                                          They Call me Mister James

                                          1 Reply Last reply
                                          0
                                          Reply
                                          • Reply as topic
                                          Log in to reply
                                          • Oldest to Newest
                                          • Newest to Oldest
                                          • Most Votes


                                          • Login

                                          • Don't have an account? Register

                                          • Login or register to search.
                                          • First post
                                            Last post
                                          0
                                          • Categories
                                          • Recent
                                          • Tags
                                          • Popular
                                          • World
                                          • Users
                                          • Groups