Write High-Performance Stored Procedures
These best practices can help you optimize performance when stored procedures are part of your application's design.

VSLive! Orlando, October 2005

Watch the video of the session! (1 hour, 4 minutes, Windows Media format)

Bill Vaughn, President, Beta V Corp.

SQL Server stored procedures are used by companies large and small to fetch intelligent rowsets, perform updates, manage data and referential integrity, enforce business rules, and protect the underlying data. These server-side blocks of T-SQL code can improve performance if they're written and executed correctly. Otherwise, they make a developer's (or DBA's) life miserable. The problem is, most developers do not fully understand how SQL Server compiles, caches, and reuses the query plan. This session focuses on a number of "best-practices" used to optimize developer and code performance when stored procedures are part of your application's design.

About the Speaker
William (Bill) Vaughn is President of Beta V Corp. He's developed for, taught, and written about mainframe and personal computers since '72, including 14 years at Microsoft. He's the author of the best-selling books ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers, Second Edition and ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers.