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

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 ...

Serverless database functions and triggers are pieces of code that run in response to events or requests, without requiring a dedicated server or infrastructure. They are often used to perform ...

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 function. See Figure 1 for a ...

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 ...

Using Multi-Dimensional Scaling, enterprises can independently assign and scale the index, query and data services to specific servers.

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 .

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.

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment ...