Learn how to use database functions to protect, verify, prevent, analyze, and automate data tasks with examples from MySQL and SQL Server.

Learn how to test and debug serverless database functions and triggers in the context of databases, using local and cloud tools and frameworks.

Oracle recently announced that the MySQL database server now supports JavaScript functions and procedures. JavaScript for stored routines is currently in preview and only available in the MySQL ...

NoSQL-based Couchbase claims its Multi-Dimensional Scaling, introduced in Couchbase Server 4.0—scheduled for release next summer—increases application performance by isolating database query ...

A database server may be part of a file server that also houses applications and non-database files; however, the term generally implies a server that provides only database functions. See database.

Using the CLR Function Once deployed to the SQL Server, the CLR function appears in the Programmability, Functions, Scalar-valued Functions folder of the database, much like a T-SQL user-defined ...

Like most databases created in the last couple of decades, SQL Server allows developers to extend the database by creating functions. But prior to the upcoming 2019 release, SQL Server’s support ...

Microsoft's SQL Server database software offers two easy-to-use functions, one of which encrypts data using a passphrase, the other decrypting it with the same passphrase.

By Joey D'Antoni 05/19/2025 Today, at Microsoft Build, Microsoft announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025 -- the latest release of their premier database product.