Abstract: In this paper, we demonstrate advanced proxy-caching techniques for function-embedded queries. We term our proxy a function proxy. It does not only service a function-embedded query that is ...

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Splitting a string by a delimiter in SQL Server involves breaking a single text string into smaller parts based on a chosen character. This is often done using functions like STRING_SPLIT, which ...

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