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 ...

I'm trying to draw table content through an Access front end. I've dug around online but clear information seems to be sparse with lots of authors posting different routes. Do I import/link tables ...

I have a database cleanup stored procedure, you know, sp_cleanup(), really fancy on the name. By far the easiest thing is going to be if there is some way I can run this, maybe as a batch file or ...

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 ...

Peter revisits an earlier tip on how to use stored procedures to speed up your code. This version makes your stored procedures simpler … though you may have to write a little more code to make the ...