SQL Server 2008 introduces the ability to pass a table data type into stored procedures and functions. The table parameter feature can greatly ease the development process because you no longer need ...

[!INCLUDE SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance] The same subset of information that is used to define a table in CREATE TABLE. The table declaration includes column definitions, ...

Defines a cursor that makes a temporary copy of the data to be used by the cursor. All requests to the cursor are answered from this temporary table in tempdb. As a result, modifications made to the ...

SQL Server provides a number of global variables, which are very useful.The values of these variables is maintained by the server. All the global variables represent information specific to the server ...

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. Oracle, ...