Stored-Procedure Performance
As stated at the beginning of this chapter, using stored procedures can provide a number of benefits to your SQL Server applications. One performance benefit is reduced network traffic by minimizing the number of round trips between client applications and SQL Server. Stored procedures can consist of many individual SQL statements but can be executed with a single statement. This allows you to reduce the number and size of calls from the client to the server. If you have to take different actions based on your data values, you can make these decisions directly in the procedure, avoiding the need to send data back to the application to determine what to do with the data values.
By default, SQL Server sends a message ...
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