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I made the long trek across the country this week to attend my favorite conference, the SQL PASS Community Summit, this year in Seattle, and so far it’s been well worth it. I usually arrive early to ...

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The SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility is an extension of the SQL procedure that enables you to send DBMS-specific statements to a DBMS and to retrieve DBMS data. You specify DBMS SQL syntax instead ...