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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To update DBF data, you can specify view descriptors in the SQL procedure's INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE statements. You can also use these statements to modify SAS data files. However, the ability to ...

In Version 6, the SAS System's SQL procedure enabled you to retrieve and update data from DBMS tables and views. You could read and display DBMS data by specifying a ...