user-defined-function

View or User Defined Function?

I have a scenario where I combine two tables into one (using UNION) and also JOIN data from some other tables. I can do this either with a VIEW or a UDF/User Defined Function. Considering that I have no view so far at all in my database, but quite a few UDF's for fulltext search and the like, I'm tempted to use a UDF for this scenari...