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Stored procedure naming conventions 101

Phil Scott advises us why we shouldn't prefix our stored proc names with “sp_”.  Good stuff!

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Feras Kayyali said:

Stored Procedures will run fractionally slower if they start with a prefix of sp_   This is because SQL Server will look for a system stored proc first. Therefore never start stored Procedures with a prefix of sp_

# January 8, 2007 3:48 AM

Jorge said:

This is false, SQL will look first into the current DB then it will go to look at the master if not found

# May 14, 2007 11:06 AM

That Articles' Moved said:

That was my comment.

# July 10, 2008 2:39 PM