1. Crash course on Better SQL Development
Vladimir Oselsky
Senior Software developer, Civica CMI

2. About the Speaker Vladimir Oselsky (Vlady)
Senior Software Developer at Civica CMI
@VladyOselsky (Twitter), voselsky (LinkedIn)
Born and raised in Siberia (it does get cold, and sometimes hot)
B.S. Software Engineering Technology (I know some .NET)
Various IT Jobs since 1998.
Starting in 2010 worked with SQL Server and Oracle.

3. Agenda Road to better development Understand platform
Use the right tools
Learn from other people and your own mistakes
It depends!
T-SQL code
CTE, Derived Tables, Table Variables, Temp Tables
Stored Procedure design, single value vs set approach
Cursor – not a Curse
Error Handling
Execution Plans
Tools
SSMS
SQL Sentry Plan Explorer
LINQPad

4. Road to better development
Understanding platform
What is available in SQL Server?
Data types (Geography and Geometry)
User-Defined Table Types
CLR
In-Memory programming
Using right tools (what works best for you)
SSMS vs Visual Studio vs LINQPad
SSMS vs SQL Sentry Plan Explorer

5. T-SQL code CTE, Derived Tables, Table Variables, Temp Tables Scope
Limitations
Data Size
Performance
Overhead
Stored Procedure design, single value vs set approach
Using User Defined Types for passing set of values instead of single one
Cursor – not a Curse
Why not use default options
(Aaron Bertrand)

6. Tools SSDT https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt204009.aspx
LINQPad 4
SQL Sentry Plan Explorer
#SQLHelp
Use it for help from other people in industry
Visual Studio Community Edition
SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition

7. Q & A Send questions to: vlady.oselsky@gmail.com
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