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 ...

We've got a strange problem here and I'm hoping someone has some kind of idea as to what could be causing it.<BR><BR>We've got a stored procedure in Sql Server 2005.

ANSI SQL 99 adds a recursive query capability which permits it.<BR><BR>SQL Server 2005 will add recursive query capability to T-SQL, but for no good reason doesn't use the ANSI syntax.

When the SQL procedure is stored in the database, it does not have to be replicated in each client. This saves programming effort especially when different client user interfaces and development ...

Even better, these examples show how to pass XML data to stored procedures, and how they can be made to read single or multiple sets of criteria easily, using only a few lines of TSQL.