In SQL Server 2017, when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the TVF subtree to get a very accurate cardinality ...

In addition, improvements to the query optimizer, through features, such as Intelligent Query processing, fixes to Scalar UDFs available without any changes to your code, and further improvements to ...

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