Guru's Guide to SQL Server™ Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML, The

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about a number of formatting and coding conventions that can help you churn out better Transact-SQL. Many of these apply regardless of whether you're creating a stored procedure or some other type of SQL Server-related object. You shouldn't assume that the list presented here is comprehensive or even applicable to every development team in every situation. The point is this: Adopting and consistently following sound formatting and coding conventions can help you produce better code with less effort.