Not to push my own stuff, but I busted my bottom for Tony Davis to write the darn thing, so, try this article [/url]over on Simple-Talk as a starting point....

Which application are you referring to?

Just understand that, depending on the stored procedure in question, the performance increase will be miniscule or incredibly huge. The simplest of simple insert statements, for example, going to a...

Seperate the databases and provide a service (Service Oriented Architecture, SOA) that pulls the data from X in order to feed it to Y, through the applications, not through the...

I sure can't tell you. I white list your stuff about once or twice a month because it keeps getting flagged.

When you say "somewhat changed" what exactly?

Have you updated statistics or, better still, rebuilt your indexes in recent memory?

Congrats again then.

And a WOO HOO to go with it.

:w00t:

Oh yes, Profiler and Perfmon. They can do more for you than almost any third party tool.

Set up Profiler to run by script (look up sp_trace_create & sp_trace_setevent among others)...

Another vote for Visual Studio. Hook it into source control and then you get versions of your scripts too. Very handy when one of them suddenly breaks for no apparent...

In addition to what Matt Miller is suggesting, you might verify that the data types of the parameters is the same as the data types of the columns. If you're...

You have to understand, BOL is my best friend because I'm too darned stupid to remember stuff.

Oh, that's likely to be a bit tougher then. I'm not sure how you'd do this in 7.0 (haven't touched it in years and years).

Just note, it's 'sys.databases' not 'sysdatabases'. You need to get in the habit of looking at the catalog views, not the 2000 system tables.

You can use parameters within sp_executesql. Those parameters can be output parameters. You can set those values within the ad hoc query and output them from there and then set...

Probably a completely inadequate solution... but I wanted a little experiment this morning:

CREATE TABLE #DBList(DBName NVARCHAR(100))

DECLARE @Tablename NVARCHAR(100)

DECLARE @Tsql NVARCHAR(MAX)

DECLARE @DBName NVARCHAR(100)

DECLARE Cur CURSOR FOR

SELECT NAME

FROM [sys].databases;

SET @Tablename =...