Armando Prato

Armando is a database architect and developer who has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has close to 30 years of industry experience.and he has architected database solutions across a wide variety of industry verticals including manufacturing, education, consumer, security, and retail. In his spare time, he enjoys sports and volunteering.

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Category	Tip Title
Backup	Purging MSDB Backup and Restore History from SQL Server
Constraints	Avoid Untrusted Constraints in SQL Server
Constraints	Enforcing business rules using SQL Server CHECK constraints
Constraints	Should I Use a UNIQUE Constraint or a Unique Index in SQL Server?
Constraints	The Importance of SQL Server Foreign Keys
Constraints	Working with DEFAULT constraints in SQL Server
Data Types	SQL Server Data Type Precedence
Database Administration	Maintaining SQL Server database metadata to identify object changes
Database Administration	Using SQLCMD to Execute Multiple SQL Server Scripts
Database Console Commands DBCCs	Use DBCC UPDATEUSAGE to get accurate SQL Server space allocation
Database Console Commands DBCCs	Using DBCC PAGE to Examine SQL Server Table and Index Data
Dates	SQL Server Function to Determine a Leap Year
DBA Best Practices	Best practices for taking on the SQL Server DBA role as a developer
Dynamic SQL	Using the CASE expression instead of dynamic SQL in SQL Server
Fragmentation and Index Maintenance	Auto Grow, Auto Shrink and Physical File Fragmentation in SQL Server
Fragmentation and Index Maintenance	Efficiently Rebuild SQL Server Clustered Indexes with DROP_EXISTING
Identities	Auto generated SQL Server keys with the uniqueidentifier or IDENTITY
Identities	Generating On Demand Sequential Values in SQL Server
Identities	Properly Capturing Identity Values in a SQL Server Database
Indexing	Avoid Index Redundancy in SQL Server Tables
Locking and Blocking	Optimistic Locking in SQL Server using the ROWVERSION Data Type
Locking and Blocking	Processing Data Queues in SQL Server with READPAST and UPDLOCK
Monitoring	Killing a SPID and Checking Rollback progress in SQL Server
Query Optimization	Are Your SQL Server Application Queries Wasting Memory
Query Plans	How to use a SQL Server Plan Guide to Tune Queries
Referential Integrity	Foreign Key vs. Trigger Referential Integrity in SQL Server
SQL Server Management Studio	Installing SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard Reports
Stored Procedures	Automatically Running Stored Procedures at SQL Server Startup
Stored Procedures	Creating Your Own SQL Server System Stored Procedures
Triggers	Forcing Trigger Firing Order in SQL Server
Views	Abstract Data with SQL Server Views, Stored Procedures and Functions
Views	Table changes not automatically reflected in a SQL Server View

Tutorial	Topic
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial	Overview of SSDT SQL Project Tutorial
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial	SSDT SQL project using Visual Studio 2012
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial	Creating a table in SSDT
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial	Add a stored procedure in SSDT
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial	Insert inital seed data into the table in SSDT
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial	Publish the database using SSDT
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial	What files are generated from SSDT?
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial	Define a publish profile for SSDT
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial	Refactoring existing database objects using SSDT
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial	Get Free SQL Tips - SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial
SQL Server Database Development Tutorial	SQL Server Database Design Best Practices Tutorial
SQL Server Database Development Tutorial	SQL Server Logical Data Model
SQL Server Database Development Tutorial	SQL Server Database Data Types
SQL Server Database Development Tutorial	SQL Server Primary Key
SQL Server Database Development Tutorial	SQL Server Clustered Index
SQL Server Database Development Tutorial	SQL Server Constraint Unique and Default
SQL Server Database Development Tutorial	SQL Server Non Clustered Index Example
SQL Server Database Development Tutorial	SQL Server Prepared Statement
SQL Server Database Development Tutorial	SQL Server Convert Cursor to Set Based
SQL Server Database Development Tutorial	SQL Server Index Not Being Used
SQL Server Database Development Tutorial	SQL Server Temp Table vs Table Variable
SQL Server Database Development Tutorial	Create SQL Server Trigger
SQL Server Database Development Tutorial	Get Free SQL Tips - SQL Server Database Development Tutorial
Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial	Visual Studio 2010 Overview Tutorial
Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial	Creating A New Database Project
Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial	Defining Database Properties
Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial	Defining Deployment Properties
Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial	Adding Tables To A Database Project
Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial	Adding Additional Objects To A Database Project
Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial	Working With Pre and Post Deployment Scripts
Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial	Setting Build and Deploy Properties
Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial	Building and Deploying a Database
Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial	Refactoring A Database After Deployment
Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial	Get Free SQL Tips - Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial

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