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Adjectives and nouns: which modifier should be written first?

If I am writing a sentence where both a noun and an adjective are used as modifiers, shall I write first the adjective, or the noun?

It's a nice C code snippet.
(?) It's a C nice code snippet.

Is the same "rule" valid for the following sentence?

Reserved SQL keywords are written in uppercase.
SQL reserved keywords are written in uppercase.

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