Function inlining in SQL Server 2019. Starting with SQL Server 2019, scalar functions written in T-SQL may be inlined. This means they will be folded into the query and no longer incur the UDF ...

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SQL has several built-in functions with which you can convert integer to character data. STR() ... two or more character items together. Microsoft's SQL Server uses the plus symbol, "+", for this.

Microsoft has RTM'd SQL Server 2014, which includes a new in-memory OLTP engine built jointly by Microsoft Research and the SQL Server team.