SQL triggers, procedures, and functions are powerful tools that can help you automate or enhance database operations. They are blocks of code that run in response to certain events or conditions ...

A function can only accept input parameters and cannot modify the state of the database or call stored procedures. A function can be used as part of a SQL expression, such as in a SELECT, WHERE ...

Logical Functions The next grouping of new T-SQL commands is logical functions; they include two new commands, CHOOSE and IIF. These commands are used for logical operations to help control the ...

An online companion article will detail the other date and time functions and discuss logical and string functions. 1. PARSE PARSE is a T-SQL function that transforms a string expression into a ...