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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Application Development

SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial (last update: 8/6/2014)
Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial (last update: 10/8/2012)

Backup

Purging MSDB Backup and Restore History from SQL Server (last update: 4/10/2009)

Constraints

Avoid Untrusted Constraints in SQL Server (last update: 7/14/2008)
Enforcing business rules using SQL Server CHECK constraints (last update: 12/19/2008)
Foreign Key vs. Trigger Referential Integrity in SQL Server (last update: 5/29/2008)
Should I Use a UNIQUE Constraint or a Unique Index in SQL Server? (last update: 8/14/2008)
The Importance of SQL Server Foreign Keys (last update: 7/30/2007)
Working with DEFAULT constraints in SQL Server (last update: 2/1/2008)

Data Types

SQL Server Data Type Precedence (last update: 8/15/2012)

Database Administration

Maintaining SQL Server database metadata to identify object changes (last update: 11/4/2014)
Using SQLCMD to Execute Multiple SQL Server Scripts (last update: 7/18/2008)

Database Consistency Checks DBCCs

Use DBCC UPDATEUSAGE to get accurate SQL Server space allocation (last update: 10/24/2007)
Using DBCC PAGE to Examine SQL Server Table and Index Data (last update: 9/8/2008)

Dates

SQL Server Function to Determine a Leap Year (last update: 6/25/2008)

DBA Best Practices

Best practices for taking on the SQL Server DBA role as a developer (last update: 12/23/2008)

Dynamic SQL

Using the CASE expression instead of dynamic SQL in SQL Server (last update: 3/14/2008)

Fragmentation and Index Maintenance

Auto Grow, Auto Shrink and Physical File Fragmentation in SQL Server (last update: 4/21/2008)
Efficiently Rebuild SQL Server Clustered Indexes with DROP_EXISTING (last update: 10/30/2007)

Identities

Auto generated SQL Server keys with the uniqueidentifier or IDENTITY (last update: 10/8/2008)
Generating On Demand Sequential Values in SQL Server (last update: 7/25/2007)
Properly Capturing Identity Values in a SQL Server Database (last update: 1/2/2008)

Indexing

Avoid Index Redundancy in SQL Server Tables (last update: 3/6/2008)

Locking and Blocking

Optimistic Locking in SQL Server using the ROWVERSION Data Type (last update: 5/19/2008)
Processing Data Queues in SQL Server with READPAST and UPDLOCK (last update: 6/4/2007)

Monitoring

Killing a SPID and Checking Rollback progress in SQL Server (last update: 4/9/2008)

Query Optimization

Are Your SQL Server Application Queries Wasting Memory (last update: 11/21/2008)

Query Plans

How to use a SQL Server Plan Guide to Tune Queries (last update: 6/2/2018)

SQL Server Management Studio

Installing SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard Reports (last update: 8/1/2008)

Stored Procedures

Automatically Running Stored Procedures at SQL Server Startup (last update: 9/2/2008)
Creating Your Own SQL Server System Stored Procedures (last update: 10/24/2008)

T-SQL

New SQL Server Database Development Tutorial (last update: 9/27/2012)

Triggers

Forcing Trigger Firing Order in SQL Server (last update: 1/10/2008)

Views

Abstract Data with SQL Server Views, Stored Procedures and Functions (last update: 8/22/2007)
Table changes not automatically reflected in a SQL Server View (last update: 2/5/2008)

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