September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
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If you’ve worked with versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server 2005, you are probably familiar with extended stored procedures. These stored procedures reside in the master database and have names that begin with xp_. Extended stored procedures are invoked and managed similarly to regular stored procedures. You can grant and revoke permissions on extended stored procedures as you do for normal stored procedures. Although extended stored procedures reside in the master database like system procedures, the procedure name has to be fully qualified with the master database name when it is invoked from a database other than master, as in the following example:
Extended stored procedures are not built with T-SQL ...
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