使用SQL作为美化的ISAM(索引顺序访问方法)包。特别是嵌套游标，而不是将SQL语句组合成一个更大的语句。这也算“滥用优化器”，因为实际上优化器能做的不多。这可以与非准备语句结合使用，以获得最大的效率:

DECLARE c1 CURSOR FOR SELECT Col1, Col2, Col3 FROM Table1

FOREACH c1 INTO a.col1, a.col2, a.col3
    DECLARE c2 CURSOR FOR
        SELECT Item1, Item2, Item3
            FROM Table2
            WHERE Table2.Item1 = a.col2
    FOREACH c2 INTO b.item1, b.item2, b.item3
        ...process data from records a and b...
    END FOREACH
END FOREACH

正确的解决方案(几乎总是)是将两个SELECT语句合并为一个:

DECLARE c1 CURSOR FOR
    SELECT Col1, Col2, Col3, Item1, Item2, Item3
        FROM Table1, Table2
        WHERE Table2.Item1 = Table1.Col2
        -- ORDER BY Table1.Col1, Table2.Item1

FOREACH c1 INTO a.col1, a.col2, a.col3, b.item1, b.item2, b.item3
    ...process data from records a and b...
END FOREACH

双循环版本的唯一优点是，您可以很容易地发现表1中值之间的中断，因为内部循环结束了。这可能是控制中断报告中的一个因素。

此外，应用程序中的排序通常是不允许的。

select some_column, ...
from some_table
group by some_column

假设结果将按some_column排序。我在Sybase上看到过这种情况，其中假设成立(目前)。

重新使用一个“死”字段来做一些它不打算做的事情(例如在“传真”字段中存储用户数据)-尽管作为一个快速修复非常诱人!

像这样将冗余表连接到查询中:

select emp.empno, dept.deptno
from emp
join dept on dept.deptno = emp.deptno;

我看到视图定义是这样的:

CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW PRICE (PART_NUMBER, PRICE_LIST, LIST_VERSION ...)
AS
  SELECT sp.MKT_PART_NUMBER,
    sp.PRICE_LIST,
    sp.LIST_VERSION,
    sp.MIN_PRICE,
    sp.UNIT_PRICE,
    sp.MAX_PRICE,
...

视图中大约有50个列。有些开发人员以不提供列别名而折磨他人为傲，因此必须计算两个位置的列偏移量，以便能够找出视图中对应的列。

使用@@IDENTITY代替SCOPE_IDENTITY()

引自以下回答:

@@IDENTITY returns the last identity value generated for any table in the current session, across all scopes. You need to be careful here, since it's across scopes. You could get a value from a trigger, instead of your current statement. SCOPE_IDENTITY returns the last identity value generated for any table in the current session and the current scope. Generally what you want to use. IDENT_CURRENT returns the last identity value generated for a specific table in any session and any scope. This lets you specify which table you want the value from, in case the two above aren't quite what you need (very rare). You could use this if you want to get the current IDENTITY value for a table that you have not inserted a record into.