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If Prompt warns you of use of the asterisk, or 'star' (*), in SELECT statements, consider replacing it with an explicit column list. It will prevent unnecessary network load and query performance problems, and avoid problems if the column order changes, when inserting into a table.
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For application developers it is unthinkable to work without version control. Yet, only 55% of database developers are version controlling their database changes? Mary Robbins provides six reasons why you should version control your database.
Burning out in an IT job is easier to do than it should be. Steve has a little advice today.
Learn how you can configure clean and size management for your SSIS catalog database.
It seems that SQL Server developers avoid stored procedures whenever possible, especially if they are new to the product. Kathi Kellenberger brings us a basic article that you can give to developers that explains the basics of how you use parameters with ADO.NET, especially output parameters.
Learning programming logic and syntax is just the beginning. In this article, David Njoku talks about how to debug and troubleshoot errors as a new developer.
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