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 looking for information on writing a stored procedure that can count files in a directory and return a resultset to perform various jobs on depending on a count.<BR><BR>For instance, let's say the ...

I'm writing a stored procedure where I need to compare an address to a list of addresses to determine if any of them match. Of course, as with most addresses, they are formatted at the whim of the ...

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. TechRepublic’s ...