CLR functions that perform string manipulation and substring extraction perform very well in SQL Server.

Part 1 of this article introduced four new T-SQL functions available in SQL Server 2012. Part 2 has the rest.

In SQL Server 2014 we saw the introduction of Natively Compiled Stored Procedures. In 2016 we’ll be able to do the same for Scalar User Defined Functions.

SQL window functions provide extremely powerful and useful features that let you work with observations more easily. Different types explained here.

Azure recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions to build event-driven applications. The new functionality is currently available only for C# functions and can ...