The SQL Debugger

One of the most significant features in Query Analyzer is the SQL Debugger. With the various commands and programming constructs in Transact-SQL (T-SQL), stored procedures can perform some pretty complex operations. You might have as much programming logic built into stored procedures as in some of your other application routines written in other programming languages. As you develop and test your application code written in Visual C++ or Visual Basic (or whatever programming language you might be using), it is likely that you will use a debugger to step through the code and verify that it is working correctly or to identify where the logic is breaking. When your stored procedures are not executing correctly or they are returning ...

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