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 ...

Stored procedures can speed up your code by reducing trips to your database -- even if you only have one SQL statement to execute. Here's how to speed up your application (and how to simplify your ...

Instead of sending multiple SQL statements from the client to the server, I encapsulate them in a stored procedure on the server and send one statement from the client end to execute them. Benefits: ...

The support for the Microsoft SQL Server package is available starting in FactoryTalk Optix 1.6.0.43 on all supported platforms. This C# code is designed to interact with a Microsoft SQL Server ...

In this third in a series on working smarter with T-SQL, let's give the built-in sp_executesql stored proc a go. In my previous posts, I've described some methods for generating and executing T-SQL ...

In this third in a series on working smarter with T-SQL, let's give the built-in sp_executesql stored proc a go. In my previous posts, I've described some methods for generating and executing T-SQL ...

I'm writing a stored procedure where I need to compare an address to a list of addresses to determine if any of them match. Of course, as with most addresses, they are formatted at the whim of the ...

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. It's not terribly complicated but ...