SQL Server 2012 was released last April, making it the 11th major release of the product. Every new version has delivered new functionality that should excite developers, and this release is no ...

T-SQL isn't particularly well suited to advanced string manipulation. I have found that small CLR functions that perform string manipulation and substring extraction perform very well in SQL Server.

The ANSI SQL function COALESCE is supported. summary-function is described in summary-function . query-expression is described in query-expression . USER is a literal that references the userid of the ...

When SQL Server calls Python code, it can in turn invoke Azure Machine Learning, and save the resulting model in the database for use in predictions.