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 ...

[PROGRAMMERS REPORT, OCTOBER 8, 2002] -- Among the finger-pointing games in development today, none are more common than those accompanying the discussions between application developers and database ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

I'm not Mr. Stored Procedure so this is (almost certainly) elementary, but I obviously rode the short bus today and need help figuring this out...<BR><BR>I have a stored procedure that updates counts ...

I'm having an issue with an ASP page occasionally timing out. The specific error is the following:<BR><BR>"*.DBCommand.Execute(): Microsoft OLE DB Provider for 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 ...

The DICTIONARY tables component is specified in the FROM clause of a SELECT statement. DICTIONARY is a reserved libref for use only in PROC SQL. Data from DICTIONARY tables are generated at run time.