Chapter 11. Programmable objects

This chapter provides a brief overview of programmable objects to familiarize you with the capabilities of T-SQL in this area and with the concepts involved. The chapter covers variables; batches; flow elements; cursors; temporary tables; routines such as user-defined functions, stored procedures, and triggers; and dynamic SQL.

Variables

You use variables to temporarily store data values for later use in the same batch in which they were declared. I describe batches later in this chapter, but for now, the important thing for you to know is that a batch is one T-SQL statement or more sent to Microsoft SQL Server for execution as a single unit.

Use a DECLARE statement to declare one or more variables, and use ...

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