T-SQL - What is an inline-view?

Question

I recently answered this question how-to-call-user-defined-function-in-order-to-use-with-select-group-by-order-by

My answer was to use an inline view to perform the

Answer 1

This MSDN article claims that an inline view is another term for a derived table, and refers to the same thing everyone else is describing in this thread (subquery in FROM). An alternative in sql server 2005 and up is the common table expression.