Creating SQL Stored Procedures via SQL Server is easier than you might have originally thought, so let us explain what to do.

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 ...

Tony Patton discusses the merits of stored procedures versus placing SQL directly in the code. Find out which one is best for your particular situation.

Stored procedures also make it much easier to deal with edge cases and even add auditing or change-locking behavior. A stored procedure can handle many tasks that trouble ad-hoc queries.

A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO objects.

The basic concept of recursion is straightforward: a given chunk of code calls itself until some boundary condition is reached. Arthur Fuller demonstrates how to use recursion in T-SQL.