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 ...

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 ...

This example calls the previous stored procedure and captures the result returned by the procedure. It then pulls the first (and only) value from the result: Dim res As String res = ...

Prepared statements avoid the process of compiling, parsing and running a stored procedure or inline SQL statement in your code. The PHP prepared statement function speeds up the application ...

How do I go about creating a dataset for this report that uses a stored procedure/sql view which will pull out a dynamic list of tables to query from? My goal is to be able to select "Server1 ...

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 ...