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

SQL Server supports atomic blocks only at the top-level of natively compiled stored procedures. Every natively compiled stored procedure contains exactly one block of Transact-SQL statements.

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 procedures protect from SQL injection hacks, and they speed up your database server and return records to the PHP page.

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 ...