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Stored Procedures Best Practices: Fenced or Unfenced?

I believe I understand the reasons behind fenced and unfenced stored procedures. Fenced run "outside" of the database (in our case DB2) so as to prevent possible corruption of the database engine ...
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Possible to add KEEPFIXED PLAN option to reduce the recompile in SqlServer2k5 on Production Env?

I'm not sure if it is good to enable the KEEPFIXED PLAN to reduce the impact of recompilation in the Production Env? I'd know if we may gain performance after that or on the other hand it will be ...
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PostgreSQL Stored Procedure Performance

Coming from a MySQL background, where stored procedure performance (older article) and usability are questionable, I am evaluating PostgreSQL for a new product for my company. One of the things I ...
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Stored procedures over SQL in the code, good idea? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What are the arguments against or for putting application logic in the database layer? Assuming I got over the problem of maintainability and debugging. My assumption is ...
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Is table aliasing a bad practice?

I remember learning to do this in a DBMS course for Master of Information Services students. To save yourself some typing, you can type: SELECT t1.id, t2.stuff FROM someTable t1 ...
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Does adherence to the DRY principle justify dynamic SQL?

Suppose I have two queries that will be frequently run against my database: SELECT UserID, UserName, UserGender FROM Users WHERE UserID = @User SELECT UserID, UserName, UserGender FROM ...
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Should I convert empty varchar values to NULL?

I have a stored procedure which accepts various varchar parameters. The middle tier code which calls the procedure has not been consistent in terms of the values it submits. For example, sometimes a ...
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What is the best method to add error handling in SQL 2005 stored procs?

What’s a good way to make stored procs robust enough that they can scale very well and also contain error handling? Additionally, whats the best way to handle multiple error scenarios in a stored ...