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

SQL Server supports atomic blocks only at the top-level of natively compiled stored procedures. Every natively compiled stored procedure contains exactly one block of Transact-SQL statements.

While my code worked in every version of SQL Server, it was hardly "hip and happening." But, if you're using any version of SQL Server later than SQL Server 2005, you have an alternative: table-valued ...

Stored procedure XML This screenshot lists the source of a SQL Server 2014 stored procedure hitting the AdventureWorks2012 database, selecting data from the Customer and SalesOrderHeader tables.

This prevents SQL Server from making assumptions based on the way the stored procedure is called the first time and picking a plan that is inefficient for different parameters.<BR><BR>Does not ...