Chapter 1. Stored Procedure Primer
Today, average software development practices are becalmed in a windless sea of code-and-fix programming—a kind of flat-earth approach to software development that was proven ineffective 20 years ago.
—Steve McConnell[1]
[1] McConnell, Steve. After the Gold Rush. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1998. Page 91.
Working from the assumption that the human brain learns by associating new data with what it already knows, we'll spend this chapter building a base framework onto which we can assemble the knowledge conveyed by the remainder of the book. We'll touch on the topics covered in the book's other chapters, but we'll save the details for the chapters themselves. I'm assuming that you know some basic Transact-SQL ...
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