{"id":690,"date":"2010-05-10T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/What-5-things-should-SQL-Server-get-rid-of.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:53:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:53:54","slug":"what-5-things-should-sql-server-get-rid-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/what-5-things-should-sql-server-get-rid-of\/","title":{"rendered":"What 5 things should SQL Server get rid of?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">This evening I was reading an article in The Washington Post called <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/special\/opinions\/outlook\/spring-cleaning\/index.html\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Twelve Things The World Should Toss Out<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;and it inspired me to start a new blog chain about the top-5&nbsp;things in SQL Server we all wish would just be removed from the product once and for all.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Here are mine in order of evil-ness:<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Auto-shrink. Grrr. See <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/why-you-should-not-shrink-your-data-files\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Why you should not shrink your data files<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;for why shrink is bad. Auto-shrink is even worse. I tried to have it removed durign SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 development, but to no avail. It needed to stay for backwards compatibility&#8230;<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The <font face=\"courier new,courier\">FULL<\/font> recovery model being the default. I would guess that this is responsible for the majority of cases of transaction logs growing out of control. See <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/importance-of-proper-transaction-log-size-management\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Importance of proper transaction log size management<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">.<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"courier new,courier\">RECOVERY<\/font> being the default <font face=\"courier new,courier\">RESTORE<\/font> option. The default should be <font face=\"courier new,courier\">NORECOVERY<\/font> to stop people screwing up their restore sequences. I hope you can hear the exasparation from wherever you are!<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">GUIDs being able to be a clustered index key. I shouldn&#39;t even have to explain this one. SQL Server should warn you that a PK is by default a clustered index, and that GUID clustered PKs just suck.<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The default data and log file growth rates of 1-MB and 10% respectively. Seriously, why did they change to 1-MB for the default auto-growth rate? However, the problem is &#8211; what should the defaults be? Answers on a postcard please&#8230;<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">These are my top-5. I hereby tag 5 my good friends (in no particular order):<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Brent Ozar (<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brentozar.com\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">blog<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> | <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brento\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">twitter<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">)<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Buck Woody (<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/buckwoody\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">blog<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> | <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/buckwoody\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">twitter<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">)<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Jen McCown (<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnightdba.com\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">blog<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> | <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/midnightdba\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">twitter<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">)<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Tom LaRock (<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/thomaslarock.com\/backstage\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">blog<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> | <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sqlrockstar\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">twitter<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">)<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Aaron Bertrand (<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/sqlblog.com\/blogs\/aaron_bertrand\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">blog<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> | <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronbertrand\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">twitter<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">)<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Please link back here so I see when you blog.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Thanks!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I was reading an article in The Washington Post called Twelve Things The World Should Toss Out&nbsp;and it inspired me to start a new blog chain about the top-5&nbsp;things in SQL Server we all wish would just be removed from the product once and for all. 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