Modificare una CTE SELECT in una funzione definita dall'utente con valori di tabella

Rimuovi il primo ; e il order by clausola.

Alter FUNCTION GetDescendentSteps 
(   
@StepId INT 
)
RETURNS TABLE 
AS
RETURN
    WITH cteRecursion
         AS (SELECT
                 StepId
                 ,1 AS Level
             FROM
                 Step
             WHERE
                 StepId = @StepId
             UNION ALL
             SELECT
                 t.StepId
                 ,c.Level + 1
             FROM
                 Step t
                 INNER JOIN cteRecursion c
                     ON t.ParentStepId = c.StepId
            )
    SELECT
        StepId,Level
    FROM
        cteRecursion