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 ...

The PHP development language provides you with a "prepare" function to send a prepared statement to a SQL database. You can use full, inline SQL statements in the prepared statement function or send ...

Most professional business programmers have found themselves on the receiving end of more than a few crazy requirement or design documents at least once in their careers. These stoic programmers grind ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stored procedures provide PHP programmers with pre-programmed database applications that retrieve and edit MySQL records. Stored procedures let you send parameters to the database program, so you can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...