Such a user-defined data type is considered a complex type in SQL-99. Once you define the new type in the SQL Server catalog, you can use it as a column in a table.

I got an email from a customer who wanted to use BLOB data type in their CMP entity bean. In this blog, I will provide an example and will discuss how can you develop your CMP EJBs to use a BLOB ...

Such a user-defined data type is considered a complex type in SQL-99. Once you define the new type in the SQL Server catalog, you can use it as a column in a table.

To this effect, they have introduced the HierarchId data type in SQL Server 2008. In traditional hierarchies, a row merely stores a reference to its parent node.

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.

To address these issues, the Tencent Cloud big data team collaborated with the DASLAB team from Fudan University to propose REDSQL in the paper titled 'The Power of Constraints in Natural Language to ...

Why write SQL queries when you can get an LLM to write the code for you? Query NFL data using querychat, a new chatbot ...

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A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.