If you ever need to sort character strings stored in SQL Server fields, check out this demonstration of how to write a common sorting algorithm using SQL Server TSQL code.

Speed Up SQL Server Apps. Learn 10 useful tips and tricks that help boost SQL Server application performance. By Roman Rehak; 07/01/2004; Technology Toolbox: SQL Server 2000, ADO, ADO.NET ...

Some native functions, such as FORMAT(), won’t upsize to SQL Server. Once you’re ready to begin, launch the MDB file in question, choose Database Utilities from the Tools menu, and then select ...

Function inlining in SQL Server 2019. Starting with SQL Server 2019, scalar functions written in T-SQL may be inlined. This means they will be folded into the query and no longer incur the UDF ...

You'll often create a script-based object, such as a view, a stored procedure, or a user-defined function. SQL Server then stores the script that created the object in the text column of the ...

Once deployed to the SQL Server, the CLR function appears in the Programmability, Functions, Scalar-valued Functions folder of the database, much like a T-SQL user-defined function. See Figure 1 for a ...

Functions are predefined in SQL and you use them to perform operations on data. They let you do things like aggregating data, formatting strings, extracting dates, and so on.

SQL Server also is part of the Army’s Battle Command Common Services (BCCS), a tool that teams use in combat. “It allows them to move the business, if you will, of fighting a battle,” says Dan Craytor ...

Using a connection to Azure Arc, which is part of the SQL Server 2022 setup process, on-premises users can now also opt for cloud-enabled billing to manage consumption spikes or for ad hoc use ...

In SQL Server 2016, this feature is vastly improved, supporting foreign keys, check and unique constraints and parallelism. Additionally, tables up to 2TB are now supported (up from 256GB).