Scalar functions let you encapsulate a calculation into a stored procedure-like snippet of SQL. It’s common practice to return the results of a scalar function as a column in a SELECT query.

The aggregation functions you can use in a QUERY formula are avg (), count (), max (), min (), and sum (). The clause types ...

Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

In this six-step guide, learn how to use Google's query formula in order to build link analysis dashboards in Google sheets.

Effectively, those methods can become just thin wrappers around SQL queries. If you want to play with SQL Server’s JSON support (or the other big new feature in SQL Server 2016, temporal tables), you ...

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

DATEDIFF is a common function in the SQL Server to find the number of days between two dates. Oracle offers its own solution, although does not have the DATEDIFF function.