2025-05-12

SQL review rubric template you can fork today

Leo Han · culture · SQL

Our rubric scores naming clarity, join intent comments, and test coverage—not cleverness. Each dimension maxes out at three points so reviews finish within fifteen minutes.

SQL Review Boardroom graduates take the rubric back to their companies and adapt the weightings. We love seeing forks that emphasise regulatory fields for health data teams.

We never grade on micro-optimisations unless a query breached agreed latency SLOs. That keeps reviews grounded in user-visible outcomes.