Sponsored Topics. For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Bridgewater, please see the article Bridgewater (CDP), Massachusetts. The Town of Bridgewater is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, 28 miles (43 km) south of Boston. At the 2000 Census, the population was 25,185.
User-defined functions combine the advantages of stored procedures with the capabilities of SQL predefined functions. They can accept parameters, perform specific calculations based on data retrieved by one or more SELECT statement, and return results directly to the calling SQL statement.
Differences between Stored procedure and User defined functions. 1  UDF can be used in the SQL statements anywhere in the WHERE/HAVING/SELECT section where as Stored procedures cannot be.  UDFs that return tables can be treated as another rowset. This can be used in JOINs with other tables.