Using Stored Procedures in SQL Server Database

Introduction: Hello Guys, “Welcome back” Today, I am here with another one new great article. In this article I explained How to write stored procedures in SQL Server. This article is compatible for SQL Server edition 2022. It is also compatible to SQL Server  2016, 2017 and 2019 and all below versions or editions.

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It is good to following the practice of using stored procedures can be a good practice for several reasons, including improved performance due to compiled execution plans, reduced network traffic as multiple queries run as one call, enhanced security by restricting direct table access, and better maintainability and reusability of code. However, they also introduce potential complexities, such as greater development effort and the risk of procedures becoming out of sync with the main application codebase.

For the most part yes, SQL injection is far less likely with a stored procedure. Though there are times when you want to pass a stored procedure some data that requires you to use dynamic SQL inside the stored procedure and then you're right back where you started. In this sense I don't see any advantage to them over using parameterized queries in programming languages that support them. Stored Procedures also help in preventing SQL Injections since parameters are used in it. There are many benefits of Store Procedure, First benefit is to it will Create once and call it N number of times. Second benefit of Store procedure will be Reduce traffic since instead of whole query only stored procedure name is sent from front end. And one more benefit of Store procedure is that you can give selected users right to execute a particular stored procedure

Creating a Stored Procedure

Below image will display the syntax for creating a stored procedure. As you can see below to create a stored procedure CREATE keyword is used.

Example

SET ANSI_NULLS ON

GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON

GO

CREATE PROCEDURE get_userdetails

      @userid int = 0

AS

BEGIN

      SET NOCOUNT ON;

      SELECT username,useremail, userdob, useraddress, usercountry

      FROM userdetails WHERE userid=@userid

END

GO

Alter or Modify a Stored Procedure

To modify a stored procedure, use the ALTER PROCEDURE statement in Transact-SQL or your database's equivalent language, or use a graphical tool like SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). You can change the procedure's body and options using ALTER PROCEDURE, but to change the procedure's name or argument list, you typically must drop it with DROP PROCEDURE and then re-create it using CREATE PROCEDURE.

Example

SET ANSI_NULLS ON

GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON

GO

ALTER PROCEDURE get_userdetails

      @userid int = 0

AS

BEGIN

      SET NOCOUNT ON;

      SELECT username,useremail, userdob, useraddress, usercountry

      FROM userdetails WHERE userid=@userid

END

GO

 

Drop or Delete a Stored Procedure

To drop or delete a stored procedure, you can use the DROP PROCEDURE command in a SQL query, or use the graphical interface of your database management tool. The general SQL syntax is DROP PROCEDURE procedure_name;, where you replace procedure_name with the actual name of the procedure you want to remove

Example

DROP PROCEDURE get_userdetails

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