December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
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Optimizer Hints
You can specify three types of hints in a query to override the decisions made by the Query Optimizer:
Table hints
Join hints
Query hints
The following sections examine and describe each type of table hint.
Forcing Index Selection with Table Hints
In addition to locking hints that can be specified for each table in a query, SQL Server 2012 allows you to provide table-level hints that enable you to specify the index SQL Server should ...