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Code Optimization – How Much is Enough?

Today I want to talk about a time when I had to optimize some dot net code. I started using Linq. But the code didn’t perform fast enough (probably because I was a novice at Linq). I needed the fastest performance when joining data from two collections? I’m not sure Linq is the fastest…but generally it is good enough. One […]

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Tips for using SQL Server 2014 cursors

Tips for using SQL Server 2014 cursors Try to avoid using insensitive, static and keyset cursors, whenever possible. These types of cursor produce the largest amount of overhead on SQL Server 2014, because they cause a temporary table to be created in TEMPDB, which results in some performance degradation. Use FAST_FORWARD cursors, whenever possible. The FAST_FORWARD cursors produce the least...

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