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 ...

I was told to put everything in stored procedures for security reasons and anything that needed to be done to the procedures could be done on the SQL server and I wouldn't have to change anything in ...

At the database level, in an ideal world, you will find stored procedures invoked by the application with COM. .NET promises many immediate advancements, and like most Microsoft applications, the new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even in a Code First environment, you can call a stored procedure from a DbContext object. But it's a lot easier if you use the visual designer. I frequently get asked if Entity Framework (EF) in a ...

I've been trying to find information on this, but it's hard since XML is pretty much written everywhere, so searching isn't to much use.<BR><BR>Basically I need to know it MySQL (any version) can ...