This project demonstrates the use of various SQL Server window functions in an existing database context. Window functions provide powerful capabilities for analyzing and reporting on data, such as ...

What is an SQL Window Function? A window is a set of rows or observations in a table or result set. In a table, you may have more than one window depending on how you specify the query.

With the latest release of SQL Server, Microsoft produced 14 new T-SQL functions. These functions can be separated into four different categories, as seen in Table 1. These functions will be ...

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability ...

To encrypt and decrypt a string we have a predefined functions in Sql Server 2008 that are easy to use. Suppose we want to save some data that doesn't need to be exposed as a plain text then in such ...

FYI, warning, buyer beware on my stuff: I use UNSAFE assemblies, because half the reason to use SQLCLR is to get to functions that are not in SQL Server already, which is where the safe stuff is.

Like most databases created in the last few decades, SQL Server allows developers to extend the database by creating functions. But prior to the upcoming 2019 release, SQL Server’s support for ...

As I recall, the scalar function inlining query optimization improvement, made it to GA in SQL Server 2019 before it made it to Azure SQL DB. However, a couple of exceptions aside, looking to the ...