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Rails Rumble has nothing on this.

Of course, you could just click the edit button in your database management studio of choice and achieve the same functionality.

SELECT DISTINCT 'script/generate scaffold ' + t.name + ' ' + column_names
FROM sys.tables t
CROSS APPLY (
    SELECT c.name + 
           case when max_length > 255 then ':text' else ':string' end + ' '
    FROM sys.columns c
    WHERE c.object_id = t.object_id
    ORDER BY c.column_id
    FOR XML PATH('') ) dummy_identifier ( column_names )


A similar discovery was made in the 1930's. One important difference to note is that, since my program does not simulate the input on it's output program, I am able to achieve speeds that are logarithmically faster than what Turing could accomplish.



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It seems easy to add an if statement the first time you need to deal with a difference between legacy data and new data models. It's still easy the second and third times.

Certainly it's easier than transforming the legacy data to fit the new schema.

Induction doesn't hold though. At some point, it becomes a tangled mess of code that has to deal with too many conditions and your mental model of it turns into total disarray.

This is one case where laziness and instant gratification can steer you in the wrong direction. Avoid the spaghetti; just transform the old data like you should have in the first place.


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