As we all know, Microsoft officially released SQL Server 2012 RC0. You can register and download the binaries from http://www.microsoft.com/sql.
As with every new release, Microsoft added more features and enhancements, improvements not only to the SQL Server database engine but also to other features in SQL Server.
Some of the improvements that Microsoft did are on Transaction SQL.
In this article, I am going to illustrate some of the new functions that are introduced in SQL Server 2012. They are related to the DATE and LOGICAL functions.
The first function I want to discuss is related to the date function as it relates to concatenating different numerical date parts and changes the data type to date time. Let us run the following example code.Mas

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