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Your Views Aren’t The Problem. Your Code Is.

Brent Ozar
T-SQL
37 Comments
“I hate views,” the DBA said. “They kill performance. And nested views are even worse.” Wrong. I’ll prove it. I’m going to use the 50GB StackOverflow2013 database, and I’ll start by creating a couple of indexes on the Users table to help our queries, then create a view on the Users table: Transact-SQL USE StackOverflow2013;…
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Free Webcast on Dynamic SQL Pro Tips

Brent Ozar
GroupBy Conference, T-SQL
2 Comments
Dynamic SQL is one of the most powerful tools in the database developer’s arsenal. When you need a complex search stored procedure that takes all kinds of parameters (price, category, location, color), dynamic SQL can run extremely quickly by leveraging better indexes. However, when done wrong, it’s extremely painful to troubleshoot. I’ve been working with…
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How to Pass a List of Values Into a Stored Procedure

Brent Ozar
T-SQL
60 Comments
Say we have a stored procedure that queries the Stack Overflow Users table to find people in a given location. Here’s what the table looks like: And here’s what my starting stored procedure looks like: Transact-SQL CREATE OR ALTER PROC dbo.usp_SearchUsersByLocation @SearchLocation NVARCHAR(40) AS SELECT * FROM dbo.Users WHERE Location = @SearchLocation ORDER BY DisplayName;…
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How to Remove Times from Dates in SQL Server

Brent Ozar
T-SQL
34 Comments
Say that you’ve got a table with a datetime column in it, like the LastAccessDate column in the Stack Overflow Users table: And let’s say you wanna find the users who last accessed the site on September 9, 2018 – regardless of the time. Here are a few ways to do it: Transact-SQL SELECT *…
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Cool Query Hints

Brent Ozar
T-SQL
12 Comments
The SQL Server documentation has a pretty cool list of query hints: Yeah, I surf in dark mode. I’m a dark kinda guy. But wait – what’s that colored box? ENHANCE! I could make jokes here, but … every single thing in that caution is true. SQL Server really does typically select the best execution…
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What’s Better, CTEs or Temp Tables?

Brent Ozar
T-SQL
37 Comments
I get this question a lot, so let’s set up an example with the Stack Overflow database. My query’s goal is to: Find the top 5 Locations List the users who live in those top 5 Locations, alphabetized by their DisplayName There are a LOT of ways I could write this query, but for the…
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The Silent Bug I Find in Most Triggers

Brent Ozar
T-SQL
34 Comments
Get Notebook – FAQ I don’t have a problem with triggers. They get the job done when you need to implement business logic in a hurry, and you’re not allowed to change the application. As long as you keep the number of statements to a minimum (say, 2-3), and don’t try to do something really…
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Froid

Finding Froid’s Limits: Testing Inlined User-Defined Functions

Brent Ozar
Execution Plans, Parameter Sniffing, SQL Server 2019, T-SQL
16 Comments
This week, I’ve been writing about how SQL Server 2019’s bringing a few new features to mitigate parameter sniffing, but they’re more complex than they appear at first glance: adaptive memory grants, air_quote_actual plans, and adaptive joins. Today, let’s talk about another common cause of wildly varying durations for a single query: user-defined functions. Scalar…
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Should we use stored procedures or queries built in the app?

Brent Ozar
T-SQL
66 Comments
A client asked a great architecture question that deserved its own blog post: Should we use more “stored procedures” for select, insert, update, delete or should that just be sent as queries from the application? If you ask a junior database administrator where to put something, she’ll probably say “in the database” because that’s the…
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Tuning Dynamic SQL by Hand with Short Circuits

Brent Ozar
T-SQL
7 Comments
When we think about building dynamic SQL, we usually think about a stored procedure like this that takes input parameters, builds a string, and then executes that string. Here’s a simple example: Transact-SQL CREATE OR ALTER PROC dbo.usp_SearchUsers @SearchDisplayName NVARCHAR(40) = NULL, @SearchLocation NVARCHAR(100) = NULL, @SearchReputation INT = NULL AS BEGIN DECLARE @StringToExecute NVARCHAR(4000);…
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No longer uses the index

Do Functions Stop You From Using Indexes?

Brent Ozar
Indexing, T-SQL
5 Comments
Say I’ve got a function in my WHERE clause: Transact-SQL SELECT DisplayName FROM dbo.Users WHERE LTRIM(RTRIM(DisplayName)) = 'Brent Ozar'; 123 SELECT DisplayName  FROM dbo.Users  WHERE LTRIM(RTRIM(DisplayName)) = 'Brent Ozar'; If I have an index on DisplayName, will SQL Server use it? Sure: Function in the WHERE clause Even though SQL Server can’t seek to “Brent Ozar,” it will…
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What Is SQL Injection?

Brent Ozar
T-SQL
4 Comments
Say we have a stored procedure that queries the Stack Overflow database. We have two separate parameters, @DisplayName and @Location, so folks can search for people by name, location, or both. For performance reasons, we decide to build dynamic SQL: Transact-SQL CREATE OR ALTER PROC dbo.UserSearch @DisplayName NVARCHAR(40) = NULL, @Location NVARCHAR(100) = NULL AS…
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