Welcome to another exciting installment of “Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy T-SQL Theory questions that only Maxer seems to care about…”If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about ...

However, you can greatly improve the performance by converting the scalar function to a table-valued function and using a CROSS APPLY in the query.

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 ...

Table-valued parameters let you pass a collection of table rows as a parameter to your stored procedure. The benefit of passing table rows is you can short circuit some of the stored procedure code ...

How to Create a Table From Query Results in Microsoft SQL. If your business uses relational databases to store data, you may have used a SQL SELECT clause to create new tables from query results.

The first form of the CREATE TABLE statement creates tables that automatically map SQL data types to those supported by the SAS System. Use this form when you want to create a new table with columns ...