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.

Part 1 of this article introduced four new T-SQL functions available in SQL Server 2012. Part 2 has the rest.

Azure recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions to build event-driven applications. The new functionality is currently available only for C# functions and can ...

In-Depth Top 7 Features Coming to SQL Server 2016 SQL 2016 has a number of major enhancements which will help whether or not you are implementing on-prem, in Azure or in a hybrid model. By Joey D ...

Effectively, those methods can become just thin wrappers around SQL queries. If you want to play with SQL Server’s JSON support (or the other big new feature in SQL Server 2016, temporal tables), you ...