The scalar UDF inlining feature improves performance of queries that invoke scalar UDFs in SQL Server 2019 and later versions. Scalar UDFs typically end up performing poorly due to the following ...

In SQL Server 2014 we saw the introduction of Natively Compiled Stored Procedures. In 2016 we’ll be able to do the same for Scalar User Defined Functions.

Stored procedures are pre-compile database objects which are compiled for first time and execution plan is saved for further use. however udf is compiled and executed every time when it is ...

This project demonstrates how to create SQL User Defined Functions (UDF) for ArkFlow using Rust. This example implements a simple add_one function that takes an Int64 type input and returns the result ...

Modern data applications in areas such as text mining, document analysis, and data science, involve complex algorithms and logic that cannot be expressed in SQL. Therefore, SQL databases employ ...