Azure recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions to build event-driven applications. The new functionality is currently available only for C# functions and can be t ...

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 ...

Microsoft SQL Server Remains a Priority but Can Be Challenging . Microsoft SQL Server remains one of the most deployed relational database management systems (RDMS) in the world, serving as the ...

Microsoft's SQL Server database software offers two easy-to-use functions, one of which encrypts data using a passphrase, the other decrypting it with the same passphrase.

Joey on SQL Server. Hands-On with Copilot for Azure SQL Database. I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do.

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 ...

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.

Most Common Wait Types in SQL Server and What They Mean. ASYNC_NETWORK_IO—The async_network_io wait types point to network-related issues. They are most-often caused by a client application not ...