XML FeedsI commend Aaron Bertrand (blog and twitter) for his latest series of blogs titled, "Bad habits to kick". These types of blogs are always good for even the experienced groups. I say that because I can pretty much guarantee that some of you are doing the things he points out in this series. You may not know you do them or even understand the fact they are bad habits but I can say for sure, this is a great way to find out what they are and the explanations needed to get you out of the habits.
It's always good to remind ourselves of some of the things we may be doing in our daily jobs that really are bad habits.
Here is Aaron Bertrand's listing. The ones in bold are my favorite out of the list.
Bad habits to kick : mis-handling date / range queries
Bad habits to kick : using alias types
Bad habits to kick : using the visual designers
Bad habits to kick : abusing triggers
Bad habits to kick : choosing the wrong data type
Bad habits to kick : making assumptions about IDENTITY
Bad habits to kick : inconsistent naming conventions
Bad habits to kick : avoiding the schema prefix
Bad habits to kick : using SELECT * / omitting the column list
Bad habits to kick : using SELECT or RETURN instead of OUTPUT
Bad habits to kick : using dashes and spaces in entity names
Bad habits to kick : declaring VARCHAR without (length)
Bad habits to kick : using table aliases like (a, b, c) or (t1, t2, t3)
Bad habits to kick : using old-style JOINs
Bad habits to kick : using loops to populate large tables
Bad habits to kick : ORDER BY ordinal
Guess I could have just bolded them all since they are all very good :-)
It is only a matter of time before shrink database makes it too that list
Thanks for publishing this, Ted. I started to read them now from top to bottom as a refresher course. 
Thank you from me as well, I have done the order by ordinal thing myself 
Thanks for the list. Most of it was old hat for me, but I learned a couple of things, too.
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