Ars Technica

If not using stored procedures, what do you use to write/test/debug SQL queries?

I recently wrote a .NET web application for work. I always make a data access class with methods for getting data, but I usually just point the methods to stored procedures. This time, I decided to ...
Ars Technica

Anyone here query AD LDAP from inside a MSSQL 05 stored procedure?

I need to get a list of users inside a given group/folder/ou whatever in Active Directory.<BR><BR>I want to take this list and dump it into a table on MS SQL Server 2005.<BR><BR>I was wondering if ...
TechRepublic

Determine when to use stored procedures vs. SQL in the code

Determine when to use stored procedures vs. SQL in the code Your email has been sent Tony Patton discusses the merits of stored procedures versus placing SQL directly in the code. Find out which one ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Capturing Results from Stored Procedures with Entity Framework 6

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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Identify Blocked SQL Processes Quickly: Figure 3 Run the dba_BlockTracer Stored Procedure.

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 ...