Stored procedures provide PHP programmers with pre-programmed database applications that retrieve and edit MySQL records. Stored procedures let you send parameters to the database program, so you ...

Stored Procedures Stored procedures are programs saved on the database server. A stored procedure can require parameters you send to the procedure or it can run without any necessary parameters.

Even better, these examples show how to pass XML data to stored procedures, and how they can be made to read single or multiple sets of criteria easily, using only a few lines of TSQL.