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Learn T-SQL Querying - Second Edition
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Learn T-SQL Querying - Second Edition

by Pedro Lopes, Pam Lahoud
February 2024
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
11h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Mechanics of the Query Optimizer

The next step in our journey to writing efficient T-SQL queries is understanding how the SQL Database Engine optimizes a query by exploring T-SQL query optimization internals and architecture, starting with the infamous cardinality estimation process and its building blocks. From there, understand how the Query Optimizer uses that information to produce a just-in-time good-enough execution plan. This chapter will be referenced throughout all chapters, as we bridge architectural topics to real-world uses.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Introducing the Cardinality Estimator (CE)
  • Understanding the query optimization workflow

Technical requirements

The examples that will be used ...

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ISBN: 9781837638994