- All objects referenced by the function must be in the same database as the function. The objects must be referenced using either one-part or two-part names. - You must have `REFERENCES` permission ...

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 ...

Modern data management applications involve complex processing tasks over large volumes of data. Although this falls naturally within the scope of relational databases, many such tasks cannot be ...

With the continuous evolution of database technology, numerous databases and query analysis engines have begun to incorporate user-defined functions into SQL. These functions enable users to express ...

User-Defined Functions [!INCLUDE SQL Server SQL Database] Like functions in programming languages, [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] user-defined functions are routines that accept parameters, perform an action, ...