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Understanding GetDate() and User Defined Functions


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(Vadivel Mohanakrishnan) We can't directly use GetDate() in a User Defined Function because it is a non-deterministic function. That is a fucntion must return the same result for the same set of data, but getdate() potentially changes result of a function each time it is executed. In this article we would see couple of work arounds for it.

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