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 ...

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Microsoft’s SQL Server may be a big dog in the enterprise database market, but its conspicuous lack of user-defined functions (UDFs) has stacked up poorly against other leaders of that pack. Oracle, ...

Peter revisits an earlier tip on how to use stored procedures to speed up your code. This version makes your stored procedures simpler … though you may have to write a little more code to make the ...