It seems that SQL Server developers avoid stored procedures whenever possible, especially if they are new to the product. Kathi Kellenberger brings us a basic article that you can give to developers that explains the basics of how you use parameters with ADO.NET, especially output parameters.
2008-02-29 (first published: 2005-08-08)
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SQL Server has some great solutions for writing reports easily, ensuring quick service for your customers. However many of the quick ways of generating reports from the database include the column headers in the results. And often clients who expect customized work want to see labels that are more familiar to them. Leo Peysakhovich has developed a way that allows him to easily return custom labels from his stored procedures.
2004-10-14
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Error handling is one of those things that is simple to do in SQL Server, but most people don't do it and it's not the most rebust thing. Here's another way that you can implement error handling in your stored procedures from a new author Amit Jethva.
2004-04-27
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Regular columnist Robert Marda writes about the basics of using output parameters. If you're not using output params we hope this article will get you started - they are a great way to return less data to the client, perfect if you need only a few values and not a recordset/resultset.
2007-10-26 (first published: 2003-11-25)
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Regular columnist Robert Marda discusses a few ideas on stored procedure documentation. How much documentation do you need and is "documentation" different than code comments?
2003-10-20
18,772 reads
This month Robert covers the process he uses for developing stored procedures. In many ways it reflects how software is developed, but it does have it's minor differences. This is a high level process discussion, not a line by line example of the entire process - by design of course.
2003-09-03
11,121 reads
Return values from stored procedures (not output params, true return values) probably aren't used as often as they should be. Robert gives you some good examples of how to use them.
2003-08-05
9,918 reads
Should your stored procedure continue when it hits an error? Or keep executing? What errors will cause a stored procedure to quit executing auotmatically? Regular columnist Robert Marda has at least some of the answers, we think you'll find this interesting.
2003-06-26
7,417 reads
This article introduces TSQLDoc, a Windows Script Host script that extracts procedure metadata and embedded documentation comments from Transact-SQL stored procedures, generates XML documentation for every stored procedure in a database and optionally transforms the XML document into HTML or other format using XSLT.
2002-08-09
16,067 reads
Here's a general overview for creating and editing stored procedures. Head over to the discussion forum for this article and present your creative ideas for using this powerful feature of SQL Server to the SSC community.
2002-05-27
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