Transact-SQL reference for using DECLARE to define local variables for use in a batch or procedure. Variables are declared in the body of a batch or procedure with the DECLARE statement and are ...

[!INCLUDE SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance] The same subset of information that is used to define a table in CREATE TABLE. The table declaration includes column definitions, ...

SQL Server 2008 introduces the ability to pass a table data type into stored procedures and functions. The table parameter feature can greatly ease the development process because you no longer need ...

Microsoft’s SQL Server may be a big dog in the enterprise database market, but its conspicuous lack of user-defined functions (UDFs) has stacked up poorly against other leaders of that pack. Oracle, ...

SQL Server's OpenJson function will let you dismantle JSON structures into relational tables, including tables with foreign/primary key relationships. As I noted in an earlier column, JSON is great ...