There are many differences and I have grown intimitely familiar with them over the last two years of doing multi-platform development.

If anyone cares...

The biggest culprits in our SQL...

Thank you.

That settles it, the answer is NO!, I cannot do what I'm trying to do.

You are correct, it is ownership confusion.

But my goal is to call my nvl() function without

having to supply an owner in the query.

I want to call it by...

Hmmm...

This is my first MS-SQL function so I'm not sure why it is not working.

I create it like this:

CREATE FUNCTION nvl (@one sql_variant, @two sql_variant)

RETURNS sql_variant

AS

BEGIN

...