You can use the str() function to operate on a character or varchar string and get a string or a numeric value back. An instance of SQL Server can be used to perform operations and to obtain ...

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.

Snowflake wants to reduce enterprises’ reliance on data engineers and data scientists for unstructured data analysis with its ...

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 ...

In SQL dashboards, you can query, explore, and visualize data using a BI tool (or a function within a larger BI platform). This dashboard offers dynamic, interactive charts and graphs that give you ...

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 ...

With such a huge percentage of all our IT systems relying on data to function, SQL will not be going away any time soon. So, let’s celebrate SQL turning 50, and consider how we can continue to ...

DATEDIFF is a common function in the SQL Server to find the number of days between two dates. Oracle offers its own solution, although does not have the DATEDIFF function. You have the right to access ...

Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2019 and SQL Server Big Data Clusters at its Ignite conference on Monday. SQL Server 2019 builds on intelligent query processing features ...