SQL Server is one of the best products to come out of Microsoft, but not every professional knows how to use it effectively. For example, some might find it difficult to create a stored procedure but ...

Peter revisits an earlier tip on how to use stored procedures to speed up your code. This version makes your stored procedures simpler … though you may have to write a little more code to make the ...

I would like to make some of our database search functions more sophisticated, but I'm running into a roadblock. The code below is a cleaned-up version of what I've come up with (minus several search ...

Entity Framework 6 gives you a variety of ways to call stored procedures that return data and capture the results those procedures return. Here's a look at all of them. In an earlier column, I showed ...

Right now I'm working on an application (ASP.NET 2.0, SQL 2005) which uses stored procedures for all SQL, apparently so nobody has to "play find the SQL" (their words) in the application.<BR><BR>The ...

The PHP development language provides you with a "prepare" function to send a prepared statement to a SQL database. You can use full, inline SQL statements in the prepared statement function or send ...

Stored procedures (or stored routines, to use the official MySQL terminology) are programs that are both stored and executed within the database server. Stored procedures have been features in ...

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