In a recent paper titled "SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them", a research team at Google proposed the introduction of a new Pipe Syntax in SQL. Google's solution to address perceived limitations in ...

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 aggregation functions you can use in a QUERY formula are avg (), count (), max (), min (), and sum (). The clause types ...