Chapter 19. T-SQL: bad habits to kick
Aaron Bertrand
As a longtime participant in the SQL Server community, I’ve seen my share of bad habits. I’ve even formed a few of my own, all of which I’m on the path to correcting. Whether they come from StackOverflow, the MSDN forums, or even from the #sqlhelp hash tag on Twitter, one thing is clear: bad habits can spread like poison ivy. The same is definitely true in Transact-SQL (T-SQL), where samples are borrowed, reused, and learned from on a daily basis.
Many people think SELECT * is okay because it’s easy, or that following coding standards for this one stored procedure is unimportant because it needs to be deployed in a rush, or that they shouldn’t have to type that ORDER BY statement because ...
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