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.

Code Focused 10 More New T-SQL Functions Part 1 of this article introduced four new T-SQL functions available in SQL Server 2012. Part 2 has the rest. By Sam Nasr 01/03/2013 The first part of this ...

In my testing, I saw up to 10x performance improvements for queries using scalar functions in SQL Server 2019. There are number of other features in this space, which we'll cover in more detail in ...

Snowflake is adding generative AI-powered SQL functions to help data analysts and their organizations analyze unstructured data with SQL. These new AISQL functions will be part of Snowflake’s ...

Now generally available, SQL Server 2022's feature set brings it closer to parity with Azure SQL. Here are the biggest additions to Microsoft's RDBMS software you need to know.

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. What's the function in ...

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 ...