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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Querying
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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Querying

by Lubor Kollar Itzik Ben-Gan Dejan Sarka, and Steve Kass
March 2009
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
23h 49m
English
Microsoft Press
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Logical Query Processing Phase Details

This section describes the logical query processing phases in detail by applying them to the given sample query.

Step 1: The FROM Phase

The FROM phase identifies the table or tables that need to be queried, and if table operators are specified, this phase processes those operators from left to right. Each table operator operates on one or two input tables and returns an output table. The result of a table operator is used as the left input to the next table operator—if one exists—and as the input to the next logical query processing phase otherwise. Each table operator has its own set of processing subphases. For example, the subphases involved in a join are (1-J1) Cartesian Product, (1-J2) ON Filter, (1-J3) ...

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