SQLServerCentral.com Content tagged T-SQL, Basic Querying, Performance Tuning and Scalinghttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged T-SQL, Basic Querying, Performance Tuning and Scaling posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Is a Temporary Table Really Necessary?In this article Randy Dyness shows you how to avoid temp tables whenever to maximize the performance of your queries. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/temptabl/662/2008/05/30http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/temptabl/662/Is a Temporary Table Really Necessary?In this article Randy Dyness shows you how to avoid temp tables whenever to maximize the performance of your queries. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/temptabl/662/2008/05/30http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/temptabl/662/Review of SQL 2000 Fast AnswersA monster book at 980 pages, it's written in 'how-to' format and has a ton of good material. Andy gave it the once over for us and reports back - see what he thinks! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsql2000fastanswers/959/2003/04/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsql2000fastanswers/959/What is the search order for Procedures prefixed sp_?In this article, James Travis covers a common performance topic of prefixing stored procedures sp_. Does it really slow down performance? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/sp_performance/850/2002/11/14http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/sp_performance/850/Using Interface-Based Programming Techniques in SQL ServerProgrammers can most commonly relate to interface-based programming in their programming language. This is harder to accomplish in SQL Server though. In this article by Chris Cubley, he shows you how to build interfaced-based SQL. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/sql_interface_final/732/2002/07/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/sql_interface_final/732/Making Dynamic Queries StaticBuilding and executing dynamic sql in a stored procedure - is it the only way to solve problems like supporting a simple search function? Leon offers a couple alternatives that let you continue to provide the functionality in a stored procedure without using dynamic sql. Interesting ideas worth exploring! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/makingdynamicqueriesstatic/672/2002/05/02http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/makingdynamicqueriesstatic/672/Is a Temporary Table Really Necessary?In this article Randy Dyness shows you how to avoid temp tables whenever to maximize the performance of your queries. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/temptabl/662/2008/05/30http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/temptabl/662/