Abstract: 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 ...

Abstract: Skyline query is a fundamental technique in multi-criteria decision-making, aiming to extract “optimal” results that are not dominated by any other data points across all attributes. It has ...

The new managed functions will let enterprises apply LLM reasoning to structured and unstructured data directly in SQL, eliminating prompt tuning and external tools. Google has boosted its BigQuery ...

We are thrilled to announce that User defined functions (UDFs) in Power Apps have reached general availability! They are now ready for your production workloads. Thank you to everyone who provided ...

Festo’s Eric Rice explains two commonly used concepts “(software-defined automation” and “function integration”) in simple terms before contextualizing how Festo applies these concepts. The goal of ...

When designing packaging, it’s easy to get carried away with the creative. It’s an involved process, and you can occasionally forget who you’re really designing for. We all have personal tastes when ...

I’m pleased to announce updates that will make Power Fx formula reuse and maintenance easier than ever: Named formulas depend on being declarative, something the system can defer and recalc based on ...

SQL is the de facto query language used to interact with databases. Since SQL is declarative, users express the intended result of their query rather than the concrete procedural steps to produce the ...

Like functions in programming languages, [!INCLUDE [ssNoVersion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] user-defined functions are routines that accept parameters ...