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 ...

I recently wrote a .NET web application for work. I always make a data access class with methods for getting data, but I usually just point the methods to stored procedures. This time, I decided to ...

Determine when to use stored procedures vs. SQL in the code Your email has been sent Tony Patton discusses the merits of stored procedures versus placing SQL directly in the code. Find out which one ...

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SPI Dynamics – A few years ago, mentioning the phrase “SQL injection” to developers would probably get you blank stares. Today, while more developers have heard of SQL injection 1 attacks and know the ...

Everyone wants faster database queries, and both SQL developers and DBAs can turn to many time-tested methods to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, no single method is foolproof or ironclad. But even ...

Stored procedures (or stored routines, to use the official MySQL terminology) are programs that are both stored and executed within the database server. Stored procedures have been features in ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...