CLR functions that perform string manipulation and substring extraction perform very well in SQL Server. By Joe Kunk; 10/11/2011; Recently I encountered a problem in a stored procedure that was caused ...

In SQL Server 2016, this feature is vastly improved, supporting foreign keys, check and unique constraints and parallelism. Additionally, tables up to 2TB are now supported (up from 256GB).

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 ...

Custom proximity search, a new feature in SQL Server 2012 Full-Text Search, is facilitated using the NEAR operator. By Sam Nasr; 11/26/2012; Custom proximity search is a new feature introduced in SQL ...