I recently put together a lesson on how to work with TSQL variables. When you create stored procedures, you can encapsulate logic

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TSQL Variables in Stored Procedures

We are going to show you the difference between a stored procedure and a user defined function in SQL. This way you

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User Defined Function versus Stored Procedure

I recently put together a lesson on debugging stored procedures.  When you debug stored procedures, you’re able to run their code line

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Debugging Stored Procedures in SQL Server

What is a Stored Procedure? A stored procedure is a group of one or more database statements housed in the database’s data

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Stored Procedures: the ultimate guide.

After reading this article you will understand the basics of using the WHILE statement to write a loop within a stored procedure.

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WHILE Statement – Using in SQL Server

After reading this article you will understand what a database cursor is, see an example, and understand when to use them in

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What is a Database Cursor?

After you have read this article, you will get to learn the basics of a dynamic SQL, how to build statements based

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Dynamic SQL – Build using Stored Procedures

After reading this article you will understand the basics of programming a stored procedure using IF ELSE statements; most importantly how keywords,

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Use IF ELSE Statements to Program a Stored Procedure

Using NULLIF to compare missing values to NULL is handy. It become especially useful when you find yourself working with a column

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Using NULLIF with Missing Values

In this post we’ll look at how to use C# with SQL. In this tutorial, we will discuss the process for creating

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How to use C# with SQL

The SQL @@VERSION global variable returns the version of the currently installed SQL server. It includes the SQL server’s system and the

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SQL @@VERSION (Transact SQL)

Learning how to use SQL Variable in queries is a step in the right direction towards making your queries more flexible for

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How to Use SQL Variables in Queries

Knowing how to optimize stored procedures is important, so stick around and I’ll show top five stored procedure performance tips you can

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Top 5 Stored Procedure Performance Tips You Can Use

In this video we’ll walk you though how to use comments within a query. We’ll go over block as well as inline

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Use SQL Comments to Code Like a Boss

Use the SQL BIT data type to define columns, variables, and parameters value of 1, 0, or NULL.  Given their Yes/No nature, designer us the BIT

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SQL BIT Data Type

A reader recently asked about a error converting data type error they received.  Since this is a common issue, especially when numeric

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How do I handle a “Error converting data type” error?

We are going to learn how to create a bar chart using SQL server in this puzzle. It can sometimes be fun

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How to Create A Bar Chart Using SQL Server

In this article, we will be exploring the CAST and CONVERT functions to understand whether there are any significant differences worth knowing

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What is the Difference between Cast versus Convert?

Sort Alphanumeric Values with SQL Server Recently a reader asked me how to sort an alpha numeric field in SQL in natural

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Use SQL Server to Sort Alphanumeric Values