Learn how to create and drop natively compiled, scalar user-defined functions for In-Memory OLTP in SQL Server. Native compilation improves performance. In [!INCLUDEsssql16-md], you can create and ...

Scalar-valued user-defined functions may be deterministic or non-deterministic. A deterministic function always returns the same result when it is called with a specific set of input parameters.

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.