In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

The quality of that query plan is wholly dependent on the quality of the cardinality estimates (i.e., an estimate of the number of rows of data involved in an operation), the order of the operations, ...

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The relational engine processes the data returned from the storage engine into the format defined for the result set and returns the result set to the client. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Step 3 is, as noted, ...

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