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 ...

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: ...

-- Query 1: Find Stored Procedure by Name Across All Databases -- This query searches for a specific stored procedure across all databases on the SQL Server. -- It returns the database name, schema ...

Peter revisits an earlier tip on how to use stored procedures to speed up your code. This version makes your stored procedures simpler … though you may have to write a little more code to make the ...

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 ...