Configure aliases for SQL Server databases and servers
Configure alias names for SQL Server database objects and servers. Make fewer changes to application code and configurations with SQL Server alias methods.
Configure alias names for SQL Server database objects and servers. Make fewer changes to application code and configurations with SQL Server alias methods.
In the simplest terms, a user-defined function (UDF) in SQL Server is a programming construct that accepts parameters, does work that typically makes use of the accepted parameters, and returns a type of result. This article will cover two types of UDFs: table-valued and scalar-valued.
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