I recently wrote a .NET web application for work. I always make a data access class with methods for getting data, but I usually just point the methods to stored procedures. This time, I decided ...

Creating SQL Stored Procedures via SQL Server is easier than you might have originally thought, so let us explain what to do. Simply follow the steps here: Click on New Query ...

We've got a strange problem here and I'm hoping someone has some kind of idea as to what could be causing it.We've got a stored procedure in Sql Server 2005. It's not terribly complicated but it's ...

A stored procedure can require parameters you send to the procedure or it can run without any necessary parameters. Stored procedures protect from SQL injection hacks, and they speed up your ...

Troubleshooting your database system when it’s having problems is no longer enough. With the recent onslaught of audit requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, DBAs must stay on top of system and ...

The ease and ubiquity of SQL have even led the creators of many “NoSQL” or non-relational data stores, such as Hadoop, to adopt subsets of SQL or come up with their own SQL-like query languages.

In an earlier column, I showed how to call a stored procedure from Entity Framework without having to mess with connection and parameter objects (though you could mess with connection and parameter ...

The commAddJob stored procedure requires that you configure the command properly (see Figure 3 below). When you set up the initial connection to the stored procedure in SQL 7 the Variables list box ...

Furthermore, in a stored procedure with multiple SQL statements, you could end up having to recreate that For…Each loop multiple times. You'd have a complicated and hard-to-read stored procedure. A ...

It is more efficient to omit the ORDER BY clause when you are creating the view and specify it as needed when you reference the view in queries. Note: If you specify the NUMBER option in the PROC SQL ...