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 ...

This SQL code runs the dba_BlockTracer stored procedure. The output shows two grids; the first shows that the root-blocking spid is 86, and the second shows two blocked spids, 122 and 104. Both spid ...

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 ...