Writing DRY code is a fundamental principle of software development. DRY, or Don’t Repeat Yourself, was popularised by the 1999 Pragmatic Programmer coding practices book (the alternative being WET code, meaning Write Everything Twice, or possibly “We Enjoy Typing”). DRY code is optimal, not just because it’s less typing, but because when you come to refactor code (make changes to it), it’s much easier if there’s aContinue reading “How to write DRY SQL in MySQL – Part 1: Views”
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