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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide
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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

by Dejan Sarka, Miloš Radivojević, William Durkin
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
816 pages
19h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Joins and indexes

SQL Server executes a query by a set of physical operators. Because these operators iterate through rowsets, they are also called iterators. There are different join operators, because when performing joins, SQL Server uses different algorithms. SQL Server supports three basic algorithms: nested loops joins, merge joins, and hash joins. 

The nested loops algorithm is a very simple and, in many cases, efficient algorithm. SQL Server uses one table for the outer loop, typically the table with the fewest rows. For each row in this outer input, SQL Server seeks matching rows in the second table, which is the inner table. SQL Server uses the join condition to find the matching rows. The join can be a non-equijoin, meaning that ...

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