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 ...

Relational databases are queried using a Structured Query Language (SQL). While slight variations may exist in the SQL code depending on the database type, the fundamental concepts remain consistent.

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 ...

In earlier tutorials we have created SQL statements in our code and passed the statements to the database to be executed. An alternative approach is to use stored procedures, where the SQL statements ...