In most cases, a procedure needs some information about the circumstances in which it has been called. A procedure that performs repeated or shared tasks uses different information for each call. This ...

In most cases, a procedure must have some information about the circumstances in which it has been called. A procedure that performs repeated or shared tasks uses different information for each call.

Learn how to create a stored procedure that accepts input and returns output parameters using T-SQL for data analysis. Understand how to declare, pass, set, and handle errors with parameters.

For reporting uses, XML parameters really shine: You can pass the same XML string to multiple stored procs, yet you won’t need to modify all of them, if say, one report’s stored procedure ...