In my testing, I saw up to 10x performance improvements for queries using scalar functions in SQL Server 2019. There are number of other features in this space, which we'll cover in more detail in ...

Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

SQL window functions provide extremely powerful and useful features that let you work with observations more easily. Different types explained here.