This post is in support of Tim Ford’s (blog|twitter) #iwanttohelp challenge. And also written because this has burned me twice in the past 3 months and by blogging about it, hopefully it’ll stick in my mind.
Setup I’ve recently been doing a bunch of work with stored procedures, trying to improve performance that’s been suffering due to suboptimal queries. Some of this tuning has resulted in creating temporary tables. After making my changes and running the procedures in SSMS, everything looked good - data’s correct, performance metrics are all improved.