Stored Procedures and User Defined Functions (UDFs) are essential tools in SQL that help automate tasks, improve query performance, and encapsulate complex logic. Stored Procedures allow for ...

[!INCLUDE SQL Server] User-defined functions are routines that can take parameters, perform calculations or other actions, and return a result. Beginning with [!INCLUDEssVersion2005], you can write ...

Microsoft’s SQL Server may be a big dog in the enterprise database market, but its conspicuous lack of user-defined functions (UDFs) has stacked up poorly against other leaders of that pack ...