UNSAFE code isn't restricted in any way, including using unmanaged code. Using UNSAFE could compromise SQL Server, so only users who are members of the sql_admins role can even permit UNSAFE ...

The .NET execution engine protects SQL Server's internal buffers from executing code, and extensive enhancements to the hosting control APIs in the execution engine prohibit exceptional conditions ...

T-SQL code is highly integrated with the rest of SQL Server. It executes using "native" data types, so data returned from the storage engine doesn't need to undergo expensive type conversions ...

You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

UNSAFE code isn't restricted in any way, including using unmanaged code. Using UNSAFE could compromise SQL Server, so only users who are members of the sql_admins role can even permit UNSAFE ...

"SQL Performance Tuning" will help the experienced SQL programmer make his or her code sing in terms of efficiency of code and optimization of data retrieval.

In my last column (published in the February e-edition and the March print edition of DBTA), I reviewed the overall coding landscape for SQL Server with special focus on LINQ to SQL, a new technology ...

Microsoft has published the first Release Candidate of SQL Server 2025. RC0 introduces a number of notable new features, including official support for ...