First, a little background. We haven't moved to ASP.NET yet, so I'm still using GetRows() to retrieve recordsets. We have search pages that bring back a certain number of records per page. Right now, ...

Hi Everyone,<BR><BR>I have (I hope) a simple question: why use EXEC when calling a stored procedure (Microsoft SQL 2005) from a SQL query window?<BR><BR>I can do this:<BR> sp_LinkedServers<BR><BR>or I ...

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 ...

In this third in a series on working smarter with T-SQL, let's give the built-in sp_executesql stored proc a go. In my previous posts, I've described some methods for generating and executing T-SQL ...

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 ...