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Daily Archives: March 24, 2015
The Basic TRY..CATCH
Have you written a TRY..CATCH statement in T-SQL? I hadn’t done it for most of my career, since the construct hadn’t existed. As a result, my code over the years is littered with catching @@error in a variable and then … Continue reading
Are There That Many GUIDs?
This editorial was originally published on Oct 12, 2010. It is being re-run as Steve is away on vacation. Do a lot of people actually use GUIDs as Primary Keys? I haven’t used them much, and I would have thought … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged database design, T-SQL
