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 ...

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 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 ...

A while ago somebody posted in one of my threads six or so reasons to use stored procedures instead of raw SQL in asp applications. I know a couple of reasons, but a few of the reasons he listed I ...

I'm looking for information on writing a stored procedure that can count files in a directory and return a resultset to perform various jobs on depending on a count.<BR><BR>For instance, let's say 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 ...

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 ...

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. TechRepublic’s ...

NetCOBOL for .NET's verifiable code combined with Microsoft SQL Server "Yukon" support for Common Language Runtime server-side procedures enables reuse of COBOL routines. At the opening of Microsoft ...