http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Administering, Miscellaneous, Worst Practices posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Andy returns to the Worst Practice series this week with a short article looking at how connection strings in applications affect what you see in sysprocesses. Perhaps less controversial (in our opinion) that some of the other worst practices, this is something easy to fix and definitely worth fixing! Read the article and post a comment - explore other points of view! Readers posting a comment will be entered in a drawing for a copy of the SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/worstpracticebadconnectionstringsandbadinfoinsyspr/802/2003/08/01http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/worstpracticebadconnectionstringsandbadinfoinsyspr/802/We're curious to see what our readers have to say about this one! How many of us have tables accruing data that won't be used and/or isn't of any value? At what point do we get rid of it to free up resources? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/worstpracticenothavinganarchiveplanforeachtable/839/2002/11/11http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/worstpracticenothavinganarchiveplanforeachtable/839/If you've been with us for a while you know that Andy started a series last year on worst practices. As he says, maybe you can't always do best practices, but at least dont do the worst ones. Read the article and add a comment, participate! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/worstpracticesortingbyordinal/811/2002/10/01http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/worstpracticesortingbyordinal/811/