Wayne Sheffield tests out the scalar UDF performance improvements in SQL Server 2019:
This blog post will examine changes to the query plan and performance when Scalar UDF Inlining is occurring.
I have previously blogged about function performance – here and here. For a quick recap, the performance test ranks these function in duration. The order of the types of functions by duration is Inline TVF, Scalar UDF, and then finally a Multi-Statement TVF (MSTVF) – and the MSTVF is way behind the other two types of functions.
I’m using a Linux (Ubuntu) VM with SQL Server 2019 to perform these comparison performance tests. I use one database in the SQL 2019 compatibility level, and another one in the SQL 2017 compatibility level. I’m using the same performance test used in the previous blog posts.
Wayne finds a definite performance improvement, but not enough in my mind to start creating a bunch of these.