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 ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...

The basic concept of recursion is straightforward: a given chunk of code calls itself until some boundary condition is reached. Arthur Fuller demonstrates how to use recursion in T-SQL. TechRepublic’s ...

I'm having an issue with an ASP page occasionally timing out. The specific error is the following:<BR><BR>"*.DBCommand.Execute(): Microsoft OLE DB Provider for 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 ...

Beginning in Version 7 of SAS/ACCESS software, there are a number of changes in the way the SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility works. For more information, see SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility ...

To update DBF data, you can specify view descriptors in the SQL procedure's INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE statements. You can also use these statements to modify SAS data files. However, the ability to ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...