After confirming with the SQL Server DBA that a CLR function would be permitted on the production SQL Server, I wrote the function that appears in Listing 1. You'll notice it uses the Microsoft.Net ...

SQL is a tool that is widely used in the manipulation of data and featuring in the relational database. They are applied in querying, manipulating as well as reporting data and it is commonly used by ...

This function is capable of being used remotely only on servers with SQL Server 2012 servers or later. The example shows the conventional use of SMALLDATETIMEFROMPARTS. Note the resulting value ...

The built-in support for JSON includes the following built-in functions described briefly in this article. - [ISJSON] (#ISJSON) tests whether a string contains valid JSON. - [JSON_VALUE] (#VALUE) ...

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).

Change tracking is available for Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server, making the Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions a flexible component for event-driven applications.