In my very first real programming job, my boss told me that I had to start every program name that was a test program with “TS” (My initials) followed by something… since in those days (on the Data General Nova 800 Jumbo computer with 32k of memory!) we only had 6 character file names, I used TSTST1, TSTST2, TSTST3 and so on… this way, we could find all my tests, and delete them later for trash cleanup. I also created TSSLS (sales), TSINV (Invoicing) etc for versions of the programs I was writing.
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Yep I use test too, however I never save it… if I do need to save it, then I copy it using my initials-name if it’s just going to be temporary.
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I’m definitely stealing this idea.
I worked for Data General for years!!!
I either set the description to DELETE or a data tag of DELETE.
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Guilty of several test baqs. I don’t delete them as they might have a query I need later so they sit there for months until I see them again and forget what the query was even for 