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 ...

Last time, we showed how to take advantage of a built-in stored to run a command against multiple tables. This time, we look at another for working against a bunch of databases. In my last post, I ...

Often times, I work with a stored procedure that takes a complex input and does some work with it. By complex, I usually mean at least one value passed in that contains a non-specific number of values ...

Tony Patton discusses the merits of stored procedures versus placing SQL directly in the code. Find out which one is best for your particular situation. I once was pulled into a discussion about the ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...

I have a program that gets data from a website. That data is subsequently processed via Regex, and the data is inserted into a database.<br><br><pre class="ip-ubbcode ...

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 ...

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