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 ...

--- title: User-defined functions description: User-defined functions are routines that accept parameters, perform an action, and return the result as a single scalar value or a result set. author: ...

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.