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 ...

A while ago somebody posted in one of my threads six or so reasons to use stored procedures instead of raw SQL in asp applications. I know a couple of reasons, but a few of the reasons he listed I ...

I'm looking for information on writing a stored procedure that can count files in a directory and return a resultset to perform various jobs on depending on a count.<BR><BR>For instance, let's say the ...