You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

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.

XML’s emergence did not initially make our lives easier—at best, they did not change much. We quickly started writing our many data formats using angle brackets, which looked neat, but did not ...

Prepared statements avoid the process of compiling, parsing and running a stored procedure or inline SQL statement in your code. The PHP prepared statement function speeds up the application ...

Applications that use the Jakarta Persistence API shouldn’t embed too much raw SQL in their code. However, when you need an SQL query for performance reasons or to access the database in a way that ...