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 ...

We've got a strange problem here and I'm hoping someone has some kind of idea as to what could be causing it. We've got a stored procedure in Sql Server 2005. It's not terribly complicated but it's ...

[PROGRAMMERS REPORT, OCTOBER 8, 2002] -- Among the finger-pointing games in development today, none are more common than those accompanying the discussions between application developers and database ...

I changed the server.scripttimeout to 999 and I still get problems. It timesout before the time limit i specified. Here is the situation. Users can check a number of check boxes on an ASP page and ...

Tony Patton discusses the merits of stored procedures versus placing SQL directly in the code. Find out which one is best for your particular situation. I once was pulled into a discussion about 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 ...