Chapter 6. Stored Procedures
Stored procedures (SPs) have been a part of T-SQL from the beginning. SPs provide ameans for creating server-side subroutines written in T-SQL. This chapter begins with a discussion of what SPs are and why you might want to use them, and continues with a discussion of SP creation and usage, including examples.
Introducing Stored Procedures
SPs are saved collections of one or more T-SQL statements stored on the server as code units. They are analogous to procedures or subroutines in procedural languages like Visual Basic or C#. And just like procedures in procedural languages, SPs give you the ability to effectively extend the language of SQL Server by letting you add named custom subroutines to your databases.
An SP declaration ...
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