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How do you refer to something like @@error (T-SQL) when speaking? Is it like "at at error" or do you just say what it actually holds/represents (the error number)?

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at at error

Fermin
is there any other way?
gbn
monkey monkey error?
01
double at error?
Nosredna
+3  A: 

I don't tend to speak in SQL that much but "at at error" would be it if I were reading the code out aloud. Otherwise I'd speak in pseudo-code.

Oli
I don't even know how to pronounce "SQL."
Nosredna
Completely with you there. I read it as S Q L but (mainly through peer-pressure from middle-management-types) pronounce it as Sequal, My Sequal, etc.
Oli
A few years ago, when I was 'bout 17, my manager at a computer shop told me that it wasn't pronounced Sequal, it was pronounced "Squirrel", and he said that's what it actually meant. Weird. I haven't been bothered to find out the truth, but I just say Sequal anyway. :)
baeltazor
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You use BEGIN TRY and BEGIN CATCH blocks. =)

Check it out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175976.aspx

Garrett
...hence the reason I've gotten by so long without saying @@error out loud :)
David J
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Patrick McElhaney
I would have marked this as correct :)
jckeyes
That's the best answer I've ever seen.
Nosredna
+1 humorous ... oh wait wrong site.
Nathan Feger
And let the Force be with you!
AlexKuznetsov
+1  A: 

global error number

Sung Meister