How many of you have objects in your database that aren't being used? What about something in a schema with a _old in the name? Or _2 or _3 or _delete? There is a lot of old, deprecated stuff I see in production databases. In fact, I've been somewhat amazed as I work with clients that many of the scripts we can build from a database with SQL Compare won't actually execute on an empty database because the script is full of broken code.

I also find plenty of DBAs that want to clean things up, but they don't. Sometimes they're afraid they'll break something, which is certainly possible. Sometimes they can never find the time. Often they might ask a manager, who usually says this isn't important and don't bother.

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