SQL Server 2012 was released last April, making it the 11th major release of the product. Every new version has delivered new functionality that should excite developers, and this release is no ...

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All built-in string functions except `FORMAT` are deterministic. This means they return the same value any time they are called with a specific set of input values ...

I want to design a query to compute some returns for stock data and in searching the 'SQL Server Books Online' I find a very small and not so helpful at all help section on the lead and lag functions.