Talk:User-defined function

SQL is not the only programming language that uses user defined functions. For example ColdFusion also uses them. I’m not sure how many other languages use this term however. Should this article be expanded to include other uses of user defined functions? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rwblackburn (talk • contribs) 13:50, April 15, 2005 UTC.

Yes... it should :) Unfortunately I don't know enough to do it without some research. —Seqsea (talk) 00:44, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously, almost any useful programming language lets you re-use your own code. I don't think that is the point of UDF. (Note: I am an Electrical Engineer who can program, not a Computer Science major, so I may be wrong here!) I believe the point is that SQL - Q is QUERY. So if you can get the SERVER to do something for you that is not a query, that's a big deal. The computation is offloaded from the client. I think that this diff should be reverted because if not it is going to explode into a Hello World page showing how to define a function in every possible language, drowning out the uniqueness of the SQL implementation... -- RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib Reverts} 17:26, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]