In the software programming world, there are several approaches used by developers that help them with effortless software development. Design patterns, object-oriented programming, test driven development are some of them. If we particularly mention the code reuse; “Reuse of a typed code. It is written once and can be used in most places. It is a basic concept of software engineering. It is a structure necessary for modular programming. ”
For this reason, user-defined functions in SQL Server help us to avoid rewriting of T-SQL queries. At the same time, they improve code readability. In this post, we will discuss the pros and cons (advantages and disadvantages) of the traditional and natively compiled scalar user-defined functions and make a simple performance test.
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