SQL Server is one of the best products to come out of Microsoft, but not every professional knows how to use it effectively. For example, some might find it difficult to create a stored procedure ...

This example calls the previous stored procedure and captures the result returned by the procedure. It then pulls the first (and only) value from the result: Dim res As String res = ...

We've got a strange problem here and I'm hoping someone has some kind of idea as to what could be causing it.<BR><BR>We've got a stored procedure in Sql Server 2005.

ANSI SQL 99 adds a recursive query capability which permits it.<BR><BR>SQL Server 2005 will add recursive query capability to T-SQL, but for no good reason doesn't use the ANSI syntax.