Creating SQL Stored Procedures via SQL Server is easier than you might have originally thought, so let us explain what to do.

Likewise, processor-intensive calculations that should take place in the server should use compiled .NET code, until T-SQL stored procedures can be compiled to machine code.

Likewise, processor-intensive calculations that should take place in the server should use compiled .NET code, until T-SQL stored procedures can be compiled to machine code.

This is even easier to do when you use managed code to write stored procedures, as is newly supported in Microsoft SQL Server 2005: ...

PHP and SQL Server can be made to get along, too, if you want to go that route, and the mssql_* functions have supported stored procedures for a long time. I generally use embedded with PHP+MySQL.

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.