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Where are procedures stored in SQL Server?
Within SQL Server Studio, stored procedures, or procedures for short, reside within any database, under the programmability subdirectory.
What are the advantages of stored procedure?
The main advantages of stored procedure are given below:
- Better Performance – The procedure calls are quick and efficient as stored procedures are compiled once and stored in executable form.
- Higher Productivity –
- Ease of Use –
- Scalability –
- Maintainability –
- Security –
Is there a way to group stored procedures?
The ability (deprecated) to group Stored Procedures seems to exist for a single (and rather silly) purpose: the ability to mass delete via a single DROPstatement. According to the SQL Server 2000 MSDN documentation for Creating a Stored Procedure: Grouping
What is the purpose of a stored procedure in SQL?
A stored procedure is a prepared SQL code that you can save, so the code can be reused over and over again. So if you have an SQL query that you write over and over again, save it as a stored procedure, and then just call it to execute it.
Can a procedure be created with the same name as a stored procedure?
According to the SQL Server 2000 MSDN documentation for Creating a Stored Procedure: Grouping A procedure can be created with the same name as an existing stored procedure if it is given a different identification number, which allows the procedures to be grouped logically.
How are user defined procedures created in SQL?
A user-defined procedure can be created in a user-defined database or in all system databases except the Resource database. The procedure can be developed in either Transact-SQL or as a reference to a Microsoft .NET Framework common runtime language (CLR) method. Temporary procedures are a form of user-defined procedures.