http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Programming, Stored Procedures, Basic Querying posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)We've had a lot of coverage of dynamic sql (including another great one from Robert Marda later this week) but this one is a little different. Done in a question/answer format, Andy tries to explain to junior developers why dynamic sql is to be avoided, how to do so, what to do when you can't. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/dynamicsqlorstoredprocedure/969/2005/08/26http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/dynamicsqlorstoredprocedure/969/Mindy explores the metadata stored in SQL 2000 to show you how to produce a simple and useful data dictionary! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/datadictionaryfromwithinsqlserver2000/607/2005/02/04http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/datadictionaryfromwithinsqlserver2000/607/Robert is back this week with a look at the text data type. Not the easiest thing to work with, but sometimes a varchar just doesn't give you the range you need. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/handlingthetextdatatype/985/2003/05/07http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/handlingthetextdatatype/985/We've had a lot of coverage of dynamic sql (including another great one from Robert Marda later this week) but this one is a little different. Done in a question/answer format, Andy tries to explain to junior developers why dynamic sql is to be avoided, how to do so, what to do when you can't. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/dynamicsqlorstoredprocedure/969/2005/08/26http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/dynamicsqlorstoredprocedure/969/Are you using default values for your parameters? Using named parameters when you call the proc or passing the values by ordinal? Should you be? Andy thinks 6 out of 10 of our readers will agree with his point of view, we'll be a little more conservative and guess that 5 of out 10 will be closer. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/defaultvaluesandnamedparametersforstoredprocs/882/2003/01/08http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/defaultvaluesandnamedparametersforstoredprocs/882/Mindy explores the metadata stored in SQL 2000 to show you how to produce a simple and useful data dictionary! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/datadictionaryfromwithinsqlserver2000/607/2005/02/04http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/datadictionaryfromwithinsqlserver2000/607/