Scary Scalar Functions series overview
Part One: Parallelism
Part Two: Performance
Foreword
In the second part of this series, we’ll look at how Scalar functions (or UDFs) affect performance.
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Comments posted to this topic are about the item BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers