SQLServerCentral.com Articles tagged Best Practices

Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:00:00 UT

Get correct answers to your SQL forum questions faster by making it easier to load your sample data and read your code.

Never update systems tables directly - a study in Agent job scheduling

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:00:00 UT

It is often recommended that system tables should not be updated directly. Presenting a case in point built around nightly job configuration in order to demonstrate the possible issues with updating system tables directly.

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9 Things to Do When You Inherit a Database

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:00:00 UT

Some tips on what to do when you inherit a database that you've never worked on before

Where Do You Go for Authoritative SQL Server Best Practices?

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:00:00 UT

There is now a vast amount of SQL Server information and 'best practice' advice available on the Internet, in the form of innumerable blogs, community sites and forums. Finding an answer to your question is relatively easy, but finding the right, or best, answer is harder than ever.

Disk Is Cheap! ORLY?

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:00:00 UT

People often conclude that the cheap price of storage is a license to use as much as possible, but there is a cost.

9 Things to Do When You Inherit a Database

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:00:00 UT

Some tips on what to do when you inherit a database that you've never worked on before

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) - Design Best Practices

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:00:00 UT

In the previous tips (SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) - Best Practices - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) of this series I briefly talked about SSIS and few of the best practices to consider while designing SSIS packages. Continuing on this path I am going to discuss some more best practices of SSIS package design, how you can use lookup transformations and what considerations you need to take, the impact of implicit type cast in SSIS, changes in SSIS 2008 internal system tables and stored procedures and finally some general guidelines.

T-SQL Best Practices – Don’t Use Scalar Value Functions in Column List or WHERE Clauses

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:00:00 UT

Query performance can be affected by many different factors. This article introduces another best practice of how and how not to use a function within your T-SQL statements.

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Performance Best Practices

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:00:00 UT

This tip is going to cover recommendations related to the SQL Server Destination Adapter, asynchronous transformations, DefaultBufferMaxSize and DefaultBufferMaxRows, BufferTempStoragePath and BLOBTempStoragePath as well as the DelayValidation property.

Building Code that Promotes Plan Re-usage

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:00:00 UT

This article, the third in the T-SQL Best Practices series, discusses how to write your code to promote cached plan re-usage. Understanding how white space and comments impact whether a plan is cached or an existing plan is re-used can help you minimize the number of plans your application is caching.

Data Compression: Strategy, Capacity Planning and Best Practices

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:00:00 UT

The data compression feature in SQL Server 2008 helps compress the data inside a database, and it can help reduce the size of the database. Apart from the space savings, data compression provides another benefit: Because compressed data is stored in fewer pages, queries need to read fewer pages from the disk, thereby improving the performance of I/O intensive workloads. However, extra CPU resources are required on the database server to compress and decompress the data, while data is exchanged with the application. Therefore, it is important to understand the workload characteristics when deciding which tables to compress.

T-SQL Best Practices – Part 2

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:00:00 UT

Continuing our discussion covering T-SQL best practices, this article focuses on how to optimize writing a jack-of- all-trades stored procedure (SP).

T-SQL Best Practices

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:00:00 UT

This article, the first in a series, discusses T-SQL coding best practices. Join Greg Larsen as he explains how to write queries to optimize SQL Server resources and improve performance.

9 Things to Do When You Inherit a Database

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:00:00 UT

Some tips on what to do when you inherit a database that you've never worked on before

Enhancing the readability of your code: Table aliasing in sql

Thu, 07 May 2009 06:00:00 UT

When writing SQL, picking good tables aliases can greatly enhance the readability of your code

Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:00:00 UT

Get correct answers to your SQL forum questions faster by making it easier to load your sample data and read your code.

Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:00:00 UT

Get correct answers to your SQL forum questions faster by making it easier to load your sample data and read your code.

Tutorial: SSIS best practices

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:00:00 UT

Learn the best practices for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in this tutorial, from migrating DTS packages to SSIS debugging, maintenance and programming in SQL Server.

Best Practices for Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:00:00 UT

There is considerable evidence that successful data warehousing projects often produce a very high return on investment. Over the years a great deal of information has been collected about the factors that lead to a successful implementation versus an unsuccessful one. These are encapsulated here into a set of best practices, which are presented with particular reference to the features in SQL Server 2008.

Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:00:00 UT

Get correct answers to your SQL forum questions faster by making it easier to load your sample data and read your code.

Best Practices when performing maintenance in a DBM environment

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:00:00 UT

If you have configured database mirroring in synchronous with or without automatic failover mode, you can switch to the mirror server instance and make it available to the clients while you perform hardware or software maintenance on the principal server instance. So let’s see how we can do this:

Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:00:00 UT

Get correct answers to your SQL forum questions faster by making it easier to load your sample data and read your code.

More RBAR and "Tuning" UPDATEs

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:00:00 UT

SQL Server expert Jeff Moden discusses a common problem seen in many update statements.

Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:00:00 UT

Get correct answers to your SQL forum questions faster by making it easier to load your sample data and read your code.

Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:00:00 UT

Get correct answers to your SQL forum questions faster by making it easier to load your sample data and read your code.

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Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:00:00 UT

Get correct answers to your SQL forum questions faster by making it easier to load your sample data and read your code.

Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:00:00 UT

Get correct answers to your SQL forum questions faster by making it easier to load your sample data and read your code.

Data Warehouse Quality Assurance Best Practices

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:00:00 UT

Collaboration between IT and the business will help identify the reasonable issues versus the issues that cannot be resolved for the current release of the data warehouse.

SQL Server 2000 Best Practices Analyzer Beta

Tue, 10 Feb 2004 07:00:00 UT

Microsoft has released a new tool to analyzer your SQL Servers and see how they conform to their list of common best practices. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

Two Best Practices!

Wed, 17 Dec 2003 07:00:00 UT

This article presents two best practices. One is about how to construct good table aliases, the other is about using ANSI join syntax. Good stuff!