Functions are predefined in SQL and you use them to perform operations on data. They let you do things like aggregating data, formatting strings, extracting dates, and so on. So Windows functions ...

AmericanDate 8/18/2012 DECLARE @Date DATETIME = '08/18/2012'; SELECT FORMAT (@Date, 'd', 'en-AU') AS AustralianDate; AustralianDate 18/08/2012 As you can see, SQL Server 2012 introduces many new and ...

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 ...

Arthur Fuller responds to a reader who sent him a question recently asking how to display currency amounts in currency format ... Consider the following SQL request: This request results in ...