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 ...