If you know lots of programming languages, then you're already accustomed to the ability to declare and use functions with a variable number of arguments, where the number and type of arguments aren't ...

SQL Server 2008 introduces the ability to pass a table data type into stored procedures and functions. The table parameter feature can greatly ease the development process because you no longer need ...

Oracle’s PL/SQL language has two basic mechanisms for getting data from the database: SELECT and cursors. SELECT is designed to return a single row into local variables; cursors give you the ability ...