http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Basic Querying, T-SQL, Stored Procedures posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)We're pleased to announce that Robert will be writing for us each month - generally on stored procedures, but occasionally on a different topic. This article discusses how nesting stored procedures works and how to use @@NextLevel. Good reading! If there is a stored procedure topic you'd like to see covered, add a comment to the article or email us at articles@sqlservercentral.com http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basic+Querying/nestingstoredprocedures/998/2007/05/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basic+Querying/nestingstoredprocedures/998/We've had a lot of coverage of dynamic sql (including another great one from Robert Marda later this week) but this one is a little different. Done in a question/answer format, Andy tries to explain to junior developers why dynamic sql is to be avoided, how to do so, what to do when you can't. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/dynamicsqlorstoredprocedure/969/2005/08/26http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/dynamicsqlorstoredprocedure/969/Mindy explores the metadata stored in SQL 2000 to show you how to produce a simple and useful data dictionary! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/datadictionaryfromwithinsqlserver2000/607/2005/02/04http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/datadictionaryfromwithinsqlserver2000/607/We're pleased to announce that Robert will be writing for us each month - generally on stored procedures, but occasionally on a different topic. This article discusses how nesting stored procedures works and how to use @@NextLevel. Good reading! If there is a stored procedure topic you'd like to see covered, add a comment to the article or email us at articles@sqlservercentral.com http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basic+Querying/nestingstoredprocedures/998/2007/05/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basic+Querying/nestingstoredprocedures/998/Robert is back this week with a look at the text data type. Not the easiest thing to work with, but sometimes a varchar just doesn't give you the range you need. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/handlingthetextdatatype/985/2003/05/07http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/handlingthetextdatatype/985/We've had a lot of coverage of dynamic sql (including another great one from Robert Marda later this week) but this one is a little different. Done in a question/answer format, Andy tries to explain to junior developers why dynamic sql is to be avoided, how to do so, what to do when you can't. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/dynamicsqlorstoredprocedure/969/2005/08/26http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/dynamicsqlorstoredprocedure/969/A monster book at 980 pages, it's written in 'how-to' format and has a ton of good material. Andy gave it the once over for us and reports back - see what he thinks! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsql2000fastanswers/959/2003/04/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsql2000fastanswers/959/Are you using default values for your parameters? Using named parameters when you call the proc or passing the values by ordinal? Should you be? Andy thinks 6 out of 10 of our readers will agree with his point of view, we'll be a little more conservative and guess that 5 of out 10 will be closer. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/defaultvaluesandnamedparametersforstoredprocs/882/2003/01/08http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/defaultvaluesandnamedparametersforstoredprocs/882/In this article, James Travis covers a common performance topic of prefixing stored procedures sp_. Does it really slow down performance? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/sp_performance/850/2002/11/14http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/sp_performance/850/Andy sits down with an entry level book to see if he should use it at work as a teaching aid. Did he like it? Should you buy it? Read the review now! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsqlserver2000programmingmspress/694/2002/06/04http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsqlserver2000programmingmspress/694/Building and executing dynamic sql in a stored procedure - is it the only way to solve problems like supporting a simple search function? Leon offers a couple alternatives that let you continue to provide the functionality in a stored procedure without using dynamic sql. Interesting ideas worth exploring! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/makingdynamicqueriesstatic/672/2002/05/02http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/makingdynamicqueriesstatic/672/Mindy explores the metadata stored in SQL 2000 to show you how to produce a simple and useful data dictionary! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/datadictionaryfromwithinsqlserver2000/607/2005/02/04http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/datadictionaryfromwithinsqlserver2000/607/