Stored procedures can speed up your code by reducing trips to your database -- even if you only have one SQL statement to execute. Here's how to speed up your application (and how to simplify your ...

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 ...

I'm working on a VB.NET app that creates SQL Logins for an app that uses our MS-SQL server.<BR><BR>The docs for both sp_addlogin and sp_grantdbaccess claim that it will return a zero if successful, ...