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 ...

Is there a way to have the results of a stored proc get put into an Excel spreadsheet within the proc? <BR><BR>This is on SQL Server 2005.

Yes a sproc can return multiple resultsets and you can even work with them in ADO, though it is somewhat esoteric.

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 ...