In SQL Server 2014 we saw the introduction of Natively Compiled Stored Procedures. In 2016 we’ll be able to do the same for Scalar User Defined Functions.

The platform runs SQL Server on Kubernetes and directly connects SQL Server to Apache Spark for in-memory machine learning and advanced analytical functions.

Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

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.

SQL window functions provide extremely powerful and useful features that let you work with observations more easily. Different types explained here.

When selecting the data, I was expecting the zero values to be returned as 0.00 or 0, but they were returning as .00.<BR>So, I changed some fields to numeric (8,2), hoping that would help.

JSON and Entity Framework As a general remark, the JSON support in SQL Server 2016 is primarily exposed through the T-SQL syntax, as tooling is quite limited now. In particular, EF doesn't currently ...