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 ...

Even in a Code First environment, you can call a stored procedure from a DbContext object. But it's a lot easier if you use the visual designer. I frequently get asked if Entity Framework (EF) in a ...

Developing database-backed software, often one finds it convenient to store stuff in the database which one might traditionally express in code, but which is useful to store in the database (so that ...

Entity Framework 6 gives you a variety of ways to call stored procedures that return data and capture the results those procedures return. Here's a look at all of them. In an earlier column, I showed ...

The PHP development language provides you with a "prepare" function to send a prepared statement to a SQL database. You can use full, inline SQL statements in the prepared statement function or send ...

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 ...

OpenLink’s newest iteration of the Virtuoso database engine is geared to take the wild innovation of its predecessor to new heights. Adding to Version 2.7’s support for XML, Web services, and Internet ...

Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s cloud-scale distributed database, is designed to offer the APIs and the storage model you need for your applications. Want a NoSQL database? Use the MongoDB or Cassandra ...