Scripting languages like Python and JavaScript quickly gained popularity and pushed further toward human readability. They ...

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 ...

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 ...

Python is best thought of as a dynamic but strongly typed language. Types aren’t associated with the names of things, but with the things themselves. This makes Python flexible and convenient for ...

Abstract: 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 ...

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 ...