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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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