SQL Server scalar-valued function takes one or more parameters and returns a single value. The scalar functions help you simplify your code. For example, you may have a complex calculation that ...

You can use the [!INCLUDEadaptersqlshort] in a .NET application using the WCF service model to invoke scalar functions in SQL Server. The adapter exposes the scalar functions as methods that can be ...

Once deployed to the SQL Server, the CLR function appears in the Programmability, Functions, Scalar-valued Functions folder of the database, much like a T-SQL user-defined function. See Figure 1 for a ...

Sadly, this has been a problematic design pattern in SQL Server. The scalar functions are executed in a black box, giving no insight into the underlying query operations to process them and ...