What are the reasons behind Microsoft implementing its own SQL extension as Transact SQL (T-SQL)? What are its advantages over the normal SQL?
What are the reasons behind Microsoft implementing its own SQL extension as Transact SQL
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What are the reasons behind Microsoft implementing its own SQL extension as Transact SQL (T-SQL)? What are its advantages over the normal SQL?
Everybody extends SQL.
SQL isn’t procedural, it’s declarative. You describe what you want, and it figures out how to retrieve it using whatever indexes or hashes or whatnot is available.
But sometimes, that’s not sufficient. T-SQL gives syntax to run procedural code inside of your queries. This lets you do control structures (begin-end, if-then-else), iteration and move values between local variables, temporary tables and other sources.