The most important thing in SQL

Is code format. Like casing, indentation and allignments. For example it's better to put commas before the sentence and not after. Like:

SELECT ProductId
      ,ProductName
  FROM Products;

BTW, MSSQL 2005 does excellent job formatting code that it generates.

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