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SQL Prompt Code Analysis: Table does not have clustered index (BP021)

If SQL Prompt alerts you to a table without a clustered index, investigate the reason for its absence carefully. It is rare indeed to find a table where data retrieval is faster without one. Read more

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SQL Prompt as a Layout Tool: A Survival Guide

Phil Factor's guide to taming SQL Prompt code layout options, and getting it to format code exactly the way you like it. Read more

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Testing the Performance of Individual SQL Statements within a Batch using SQL Prompt

With SQL Prompt and Phil Factor's chk code snippet, you can, with a few clicks, get a list of all the SQL statements executed within a batch, in SSMS, their execution plans, and their execution statistics, such as duration, CPU, logical reads and so on. Read more

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SQL Prompt Code Analysis: Avoid using the ISNUMERIC Function (E1029)

Avoid using the IsNumeric() function, because it can often lead to data type conversion errors, when importing data. On SQL Server 2012 or later, use the Try_Convert() or Try_Cast() function instead. On earlier SQL Server versions, the only way to avoid it is by using LIKE expressions. Read more

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SQL Prompt Code Analysis: INSERT INTO a permanent table with ORDER BY (PE020)

Data in relational tables is never guaranteed to be returned in a particular order, so adding an ORDER BY to an INSERT INTO statement is meaningless and, pre-SQL Server 2012, could cause performance issues. If you really need to impose a particular order on rows in the table, use a… Read more

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SQL Prompt code analysis: avoid non-standard column aliases (ST002 and DEP021)

If you declare a column alias using equals SQL Prompt will raise a violation of a style rule (ST002). It's best to follow the ANSI-SQL92 standard of assigning aliases using the AS keyword. If the alias is not a standard identifier, delimit it with double quotes. using single quotes has… Read more

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SQL Prompt code analysis: avoiding the old-style TOP clause (ST006)

If you want to use TOP with an expression or subquery, or in INSERT, UPDATE, MERGE, and DELETE statements, then use of brackets is required, so it's a good habit to adopt everywhere. Read more

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Improving legacy code using SQL Prompt code analysis

SQL Prompt code analysis, introduced in v9.2, provides a quick and easy way to assess the overall health and quality of your SQL scripts. It will help the team prevent technical debt from entering the code base, to remove it from existing code during code reviews, and to ensure that… Read more

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SQL Code Analysis from a PowerShell Deployment Script

This article shows how to define SQL code analysis rules using SQL Prompt and them run them automatically from a PowerShell script, displaying the detected code issues in a handy HTML report. Read more

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Reusing Query Results in SSMS

Every time you need to reuse the query results from SSMS, for example to populate another table, or to search for matching rows in another table, it will inevitably mean a lot of manual tweaking to the get the results into the right format. Louis Davidson uncovers three SQL Prompt… Read more

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SQL Prompt Code Analysis: Table does not have clustered index (BP021)

SQL Prompt as a Layout Tool: A Survival Guide

Testing the Performance of Individual SQL Statements within a Batch using SQL Prompt

SQL Prompt Code Analysis: Avoid using the ISNUMERIC Function (E1029)

SQL Prompt Code Analysis: INSERT INTO a permanent table with ORDER BY (PE020)

SQL Prompt code analysis: avoid non-standard column aliases (ST002 and DEP021)

SQL Prompt code analysis: avoiding the old-style TOP clause (ST006)

Improving legacy code using SQL Prompt code analysis

SQL Code Analysis from a PowerShell Deployment Script

Reusing Query Results in SSMS

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