source An established data dictionary provides numerous benefits for Federal Student Aid: - Improved data quality: Labelling information consistently, with agreed-upon definitions for data elements and a common set of properties for each data element, makes systems and data analysis easier and business intelligence more effective because of access to high data quality information in the EDD. - Easy access… Read more →
Month: June 2016
Tips for Sql query performance
The following are a list of good practices I follow when querying large sets of data. SELECT * Avoid selecting all columns from a table. Queries should explicitly list each column it requires Changing column definitions on the underlying tables can have an adverse effect on dependencies such as views, name clashes etc Avoid reading and returning unnecessary data Can… Read more →