Microsoft’s SQL Server may be a big dog in the enterprise database market, but its conspicuous lack of user-defined functions (UDFs) has stacked up poorly against other leaders of that pack. Oracle, ...

Recently I encountered a problem in a stored procedure that was caused by an unexpected result from the SQL Server ISNUMERIC() function. I was using SQL Server 2008 R2 but the issue has long been ...

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What Is The Function In Sql? Objects in SQL Server are called functions. SQL functions are essentially SQL statements that accept only input parameters, perform actions, and then return the result.

SQL Server 2005&'s new integrated Visual Studio features allow solution providers, who write lines of business applications, to be more productive by giving them faster access to data and more ...