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Stored procedures offer many advanced features not available in the standard SQL language. The ability to pass parameters and perform logic allows the application designer to automate complex tasks.

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 the following article we will learn how to insert results of a stored procedure to a table. There are two approaches to do this depending on whether we know the table schema beforehand or not. We ...

Most professional business programmers have found themselves on the receiving end of more than a few crazy requirement or design documents at least once in their careers. These stoic programmers grind ...

Even in a Code First environment, you can call a stored procedure from a DbContext object. But it's a lot easier if you use the visual designer. I frequently get asked if Entity Framework (EF) in a ...

The new In-Memory OLTP feature in SQL Server 2014 greatly optimizes the performance of certain OLTP applications. By using the new memory-optimized tables you can speed up data access, in particular ...