SQL Server, MySQL server, and other commercial database systems offer a host of built-in functions that include mathematical, date, string, and conversion functions, which can be used for both ...

SQL Server 2008 introduces the ability to pass a table data type into stored procedures and functions. The table parameter feature can greatly ease the development process because you no longer ...

Microsoft lists one new addition in the service pack, which is an improvement to the "dynamic management view" function. Dynamic management views are used to "return server state information," ...

Function inlining in SQL Server 2019. Starting with SQL Server 2019, scalar functions written in T-SQL may be inlined. This means they will be folded into the query and no longer incur the UDF ...