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Video: Pt. 1 - What Return Values Are and How to Use Them

  • ·Skill level: 200 (Beginner - Intermediate)
  • ·Run Time: 9:32
  • ·Instructor: Scott Whigham

Description:

This video is an excellent introduction to using Return Values in your SQL Server stored procedures. Return values can speed up performance of your applications as well as helping make a more logical flow. Anyone writing or maintaining stored procedures needs to know this information. NOTE: This video was shot on SQL Server 2005 but the same concepts apply to all versions of SQL Server.

Highlights from this video:
  • Making decisions using return values
  • Returning values to the caller
  • Using RAISERROR and RETURN values

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Scott Whigham

Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio, and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries, and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most re... (Scott's full bio can be found here)


NOTE: This video is part of our SQL Server Programming (SQL Server 2005/2000): Transact SQL course.
This video is from Chapter 11: Stored Procedure Programming and Error Handling

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