想想这样的情况，

You have a database with data. There are a number of different applications needed to access that central database, and in the future some new applications too. If you are going to insert the inline database queries to access the central database, inside each application's code individually, then probably you have to duplicate the same query again and again inside different applications' code. In that kind of a situation, you can use stored procedures (SPs). With stored procedures, you are writing number of common queries (procedures) and store them with the central database. Now the duplication of work will never happen as before and the data access and the maintenance will be done centrally.

注意:

In the above situation, you may wonder "Why cannot we introduce a central data access server to interact with all the applications? Yes. That will be a possible alternative. But, The main advantage with SPs over that approach is, unlike your data-access-code with inline queries, SPs are pre-compiled statements, so they will execute faster. And communication costs (over networks) will be at a minimum. Opposite to that, SPs will add some more load to the database server. If that would be a concern according to the situation, a centralized data access server with inline queries will be a better choice.

对于简单的,

存储过程是存储程序，存储在数据库中的程序或函数。

每个存储的程序都包含一个由SQL语句组成的主体。该语句可以是由几个用分号(;)分隔的语句组成的复合语句。

CREATE PROCEDURE dorepeat(p1 INT)
BEGIN
  SET @x = 0;
  REPEAT SET @x = @x + 1; UNTIL @x > p1 END REPEAT;
END;

SQL Server中的存储过程可以接受输入参数并返回多个输出参数值;在SQL Server中，存储过程编写语句在数据库中执行操作，并将状态值返回给调用过程或批处理。

在SQL Server中使用存储过程的好处

它们允许模块化编程。 它们允许更快的执行。 它们可以减少网络流量。 它们可以用作一种安全机制。

下面是一个存储过程的示例，它接受参数，执行查询并返回结果。具体来说，存储过程接受BusinessEntityID作为参数，并使用它来匹配HumanResources的主键。Employee表返回所请求的员工。

> create procedure HumanResources.uspFindEmployee    `*<<<---Store procedure name`*
@businessEntityID                                     `<<<----parameter`
as
begin
SET NOCOUNT ON;
Select businessEntityId,              <<<----select statement to return one employee row
NationalIdNumber,
LoginID,
JobTitle,
HireData,
From HumanResources.Employee
where businessEntityId =@businessEntityId     <<<---parameter used as criteria
end

这是我从essential.com上学到的，非常有用。

在存储过程中，语句只被写入一次，从而减少了客户端和服务器之间的网络流量。 我们也可以避免Sql注入攻击。

Incase if you are using a third party program in your application for processing payments, here database should only expose the information it needed and activity that this third party has been authorized, by this we can achieve data confidentiality by setting permissions using Stored Procedures. The updation of table should only done to the table it is targeting but it shouldn't update any other table, by which we can achieve data integrity using transaction processing and error handling. If you want to return one or more items with a data type then it is better to use an output parameter. In Stored Procedures, we use an output parameter for anything that needs to be returned. If you want to return only one item with only an integer data type then better use a return value. Actually the return value is only to inform success or failure of the Stored Procedure.

存储过程是SQL语句和过程逻辑的命名集合，即编译、验证并存储在服务器数据库中。存储过程通常被视为其他数据库对象，并通过服务器安全机制进行控制。

存储过程是一个预编译的SQL语句集，它执行一些特定的任务。 存储过程应该使用EXEC单独执行 存储过程可以返回多个参数 存储过程可用于实现事务