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 ...

Now, with a few advanced stored-procedure debuggers on the market, the quality of discussion in these finger-pointing games may improve. Tools such as Compuware Corp.'s DevPartner DB for Microsoft SQL ...

This prevents SQL Server from making assumptions based on the way the stored procedure is called the first time and picking a plan that is inefficient for different parameters.<BR><BR>Does not ...

While my code worked in every version of SQL Server, it was hardly "hip and happening." But, if you're using any version of SQL Server later than SQL Server 2005, you have an alternative: table-valued ...

Stored procedure XML This screenshot lists the source of a SQL Server 2014 stored procedure hitting the AdventureWorks2012 database, selecting data from the Customer and SalesOrderHeader tables.

I'm having an issue with an ASP page occasionally timing out. The specific error is the following:<BR><BR>"*.DBCommand.Execute(): Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL ...

So began my search for a way to effectively test Stored Procedures. Enter TST. TST is an Open source Unit Testing framework specifically meant for testing SQL Server Database Code.

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 ...

In a database management system (DBMS), it is an SQL program that is stored in the database which is executed by calling it directly from the client or from a database trigger. When the SQL procedure ...

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.