1. The Five Mistakes You are Probably Making with SQL Server
Kathi Kellenberger
Auntkathisql.com @auntkathi

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5. Who am I?
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6. Agenda Configuration Maintenance Reusability Index Strategy
SARGability

7. Configuration

8. Configuration
Memory
Parallelism
Ad hoc workloads
Database location

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Scripts

10. Reusability

11. Reusability Avoid Do Nested views
Scaler and multi-line functions that touch tables Do
In-line table valued functions
Stored procedures
Temp tables

12. Index Strategy

13. Index Strategy Don’t blindly follow DTA or index suggestions
Avoid duplicate / overlapping indexes
Remove unneeded indexes
Avoid Key Lookups and Index Scans

14. SARGability

15. SARGability Avoid Do Functions on columns Implicit conversions
Query on secondary column
Scan Do
Rewrite WHERE clause
Query on first column
Seek

16. Contact Information
Kathi Kellenberger
Auntkathisql.com
@auntkathi