For example, an 8-core general-purpose Managed Instance costs $1,472.75 per month, and the SQL Server licensing component makes up $584 of that cost, so the total cost would be $889 per month ...

In SQL Server, a function that returns a single value is known as a “scalar UDF” or “scalar user defined function”. These scalar UDFs are automatically categorized as deterministic or non ...

This restricts which users can view what data in a table, based on a function. SQL Server 2016 introduces this feature, which is very useful in multi-tenant environments where you may want to ...

Recently I encountered a problem in a stored procedure that was caused by an unexpected result from the SQL Server ISNUMERIC() function. I was using SQL Server 2008 R2 but the issue has long been ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its ... Microsoft A good example here is the new disaster recovery function that allows users to replicate their data in SQL Managed ...

If you’ve been managing databases for any length of time, you’ve probably had to contend with the “noisy neighbors” scenario. In this scenario, you have several applications, each with their own ...