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The Top 10 Developer Mistakes That Won’t Scale

Presenter:
Brent Ozar (Quest)

Session Details

You’ve heard it before: “It worked fine on my machine, but the users say it’s too slow.” Don’t blame the developers: they’re using SQL Server features that look great on paper, but in reality, they won’t scale up to production loads. Learn to recognize these common mistakes before they go into production, and be armed with easy fixes for:

User-defined functions that go through too much data
Triggers that perform business logic
Cursors that process data row by row