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He is correct, there will be a difference in performance between an inline table valued function (ITVF) and a multi-statement table valued function (MSTVF) even if they both simply execute a SELECT statement.
- Example 1 – Inline Table-Valued Function
- Example 2 – multi-statement Table-Valued Function
- Example 3 – Add Another Statement to The Mstvf
Here’s an example of a simple ITVF. Here, I select from two tables using UNION ALL, and the function simply returns the result.
Here’s an example of using an MSTVF to do the same thing, but in a different way. The function starts with declaring a TABLE variable called @pets. In doing this, we explicitly specify the structure of the return table. The queries inside the BEGIN/END block are saved to the TABLE variable called @pets. In this case, I chose not to use UNION ALL. I...
To further demonstrate the “multi-statement” aspect of MSTVFs, we can add more statements to the above MSTVF and save the results to the same return variable. Example: In this case I added some code to return a special message whenever the query results in no rows being returned.
- Generally faster than MTSVFs.
- ITVFs do not use the BEGIN / END syntax.
In comparison with stored procedures, the table-valued functions are more flexible because we can use them wherever tables are used. In this tutorial, you have learned about SQL Server table-valued function including inline table-valued functions and multi-statement table-valued functions.
Jan 15, 2019 · First, there are two type of table valued functions which are inline table valued function (Inline TVF) and multi-statement table valued function (multi-statement TVF). Inline table valued function refers to a TVF where the function body just contains one line of select statement.
Sep 11, 2019 · Multi-statement table-valued function returns a table as output and this output table structure can be defined by the user. MSTVFs can contain only one statement or more than one statement. Also, we can modify and aggregate the output table in the function body.
SQL Table-Valued Function (TVF) is a user-defined function that returns a table as a result set. Unlike scalar functions that return a single value, a TVF can be used to encapsulate a complex logic that generates and returns a table of data.
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May 16, 2023 · In SQL Server, a multi-statement table-valued function (TVF) is a user-defined function that returns a table of rows and columns. Unlike a scalar function, which returns a single value, a TVF can return multiple rows and columns.