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 ...

Stored procedures can speed up your code by reducing trips to your database -- even if you only have one SQL statement to execute. Here's how to speed up your application (and how to simplify your ...

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.

Hi all..as the title suggested...MS Visual Basic 6MS SQL Server 7i have the below code to execute a stored procedure residing in a SQL Server...just wondering.. how can i add a Progress Bar to the ...

Most professional business programmers have found themselves on the receiving end of more than a few crazy requirement or design documents at least once in their careers. These stoic programmers grind ...

I want to create a report that has a parameter which will display something similar to this: This drop down list will get added onto when more tables get created. Assume that each server will have 1 ...

In SQL Server, the initial dialect for stored procedures (or stored procs) was Transact-SQL, aka T-SQL; in Oracle, it was PL-SQL. Both databases have added additional languages for stored ...

The basic concept of recursion is straightforward: a given chunk of code calls itself until some boundary condition is reached. Arthur Fuller demonstrates how to use recursion in T-SQL.

You can use the SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility statements in a PROC SQL query, or you can store them in a PROC SQL view. When you create a PROC SQL view, any arguments that you specify in the ...