The stored procedure was performing a calculation on a SQL Server column of type nvarchar (50), using the SQL Server ISNUMERIC function to determine which text values could safely be included in the ...

Function inlining in SQL Server 2019 Starting with SQL Server 2019, scalar functions written in T-SQL may be inlined. This means they will be folded into the query and no longer incur the UDF ...

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.