Difference between Stored Procedures and User Defined Functions in SQL Server

Stored Procedure
Stored Procedures are pre-compile objects which are compiled for first time and saved, which executes (compiled code) whenever it is called. Stored procedure does not necessarily return data, but it can return more than one result set. It can be used to affect data (update/insert/delete), can have transactions, can have error handling, do not have restrictions about non-deterministic functions, and can call other stored procedures.

User Defined Function
User defined function is compiled and executed every time when it is called. Function attempts to return something, always, and has several restrictions - for example, you can't use DML statements, call stored procedures, call NEWID(), etc. You also cannot have error handling, transactions, or non-deterministic functions (e.g. GETDATE() in SQL Server 2000).

Differences :

• Stored procedures compiled first time and reuse the execution plan when next time called while function compiled every time when called.
• Stored procedure can have input parameter as well as output parameter while user defined function can have only input parameters.

Conversion of Decimal to Binary in C#

In interviews, there are some programming questions which you will find most of the places like Write a program to reverse the string or Write a program to check string are palindrome or not etc..

In this post, I have a picked a question from that type of programming questions i.e.

Write a program for converting the decimal value to binary value?

Below is the simple method for converting a decimal value into binary value  :

Code Snippet

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/// <summary>
/// Method for converting Decimal to Binary
/// </summary>
/// <param name="_value">integer value</param>
/// <returns></returns>
static string DecimalToBinary(int _value)
{
  string strBinary = string.Empty;
  while (_value >= 1)
   {
     strBinary = (_value % 2).ToString() + strBinary;
     _value = _value / 2;
   }
   return strBinary;
}

Creating Batch file to Start and Stop the Window services

Windows  services are a very important part of windows environment. We can easily change the windows environment by stopping or starting the services, for example boost the system performance by stopping the multiple services during game playing.

Warning: Manipulating windows services can have some unwanted effects on your system. You should create a system restore point before experimenting.

We can easily changed the service state by creating batch file(.bat) having batch commands for start or stop the service. The important commands are the following-

•  Net Stop- For stopping the service.
• Net Start- For Starting the service.

Note:-The batch file will need to be run as administrator.

For Example, I have taken the "Print Spooler" service to start through the batch file. Service name of "Print Spooler" service is "Spooler".

Happy New Year 2014

Wish All of You a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2014 :)

How To- Load ASP.Net User Control Dynamically Using jQuery and Ajax

Here in this post, I am going to explain how to dynamically load the Asp.Net user control using jQuery and Ajax. For loading the user control we will use the Web Method on server side and call that web method through Ajax call using jQuery.

You can also find my other articles related to C#, ASP.Net,  jQuery, Java Script and SQL Server.

So, lets start the example. In this example I have used one aspx page name Demo.aspx and one user control to load on the aspx page DemoUserControl.ascx.
ASPX Page

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<div style="width:350px">
        <table width="100%">
            <tr>
                <td>
                    <asp:Label ID="lblName" runat="server" Font-Bold="true" Text="Name"></asp:Label>
                </td>
                <td>
                    <asp:TextBox ID="txtName" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>
                    <asp:Label ID="lblAge" runat="server" Font-Bold="true" Text="Age"></asp:Label>
                </td>
                <td>
                    <asp:TextBox ID="txtAge" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <asp:Button ID="btnLoadUserControl" runat="server" Text="LoadControl" />
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </div>
    <fieldset style="width:350px">
        <legend>User Control Content</legend>
        <div id="userControlContent">
        </div>
    </fieldset>

In the above aspx page, there are two TextBoxes for capturing the input and one Button to load the user control and show the enterd value.