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Introduction to stored procedures

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Introduction to stored procedures

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All these functions that we have are great and they're very useful and you'll use them all the time, but you probably won't end up writing a lot of them. However, spend any time with SQL Server and you will write stored procedures. A stored procedure is simply a chunk of SQL wrapped up, given a name, and then stored in the database. It can then be executed multiple times from SQL Server Management Studio, called from an application. It's available to anyone who can get to the database. And these will be the main way that you reuse SQL. Talk to developers and database administrators and they'll tell you that almost all of the SQL they write is intended for a stored procedure. Now we've written a lot of SQL in the past few hours, but if I'd wanted to save and reuse any of this I simply would have just have the option to go to my File menu and save this as a text file on my desktop. Well, that's fine for some personal learning and testing. But when you write some more complex SQL that…

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