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 ...

Stored procedures (or stored routines, to use the official MySQL terminology) are programs that are both stored and executed within the database server. Stored procedures have been features in ...

SPI Dynamics – A few years ago, mentioning the phrase “SQL injection” to developers would probably get you blank stares. Today, while more developers have heard of SQL injection 1 attacks and know the ...

NetCOBOL for .NET's verifiable code combined with Microsoft SQL Server "Yukon" support for Common Language Runtime server-side procedures enables reuse of COBOL routines. At the opening of Microsoft ...

This article explains how to repair the MDF file using the native repair methods and how to use a Reliable MDF file Repair ...

A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO objects. Every so often, I find myself wishing that I had a utility ...

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

Everyone wants faster database queries, and both SQL developers and DBAs can turn to many time-tested methods to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, no single method is foolproof or ironclad. But even ...