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 ...

I'm trying to draw table content through an Access front end. I've dug around online but clear information seems to be sparse with lots of authors posting different routes. Do I import/link tables ...

I'm working on a VB.NET app that creates SQL Logins for an app that uses our MS-SQL server.<BR><BR>The docs for both sp_addlogin and sp_grantdbaccess claim that it will return a zero if successful, ...

Stored procedures can speed up your code by reducing trips to your database -- even if you only have one SQL statement to execute. Here's how to speed up your application (and how to simplify your ...

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 ...