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SQL SERVER – 2008 Star Join Query Optimization

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, SQL Joins
Business Intelligence (BI) plays a significant role in businesses nowadays. Moreover, the databases that deal with the queries related to BI are presently facing an increase in workload. At present, when queries are sent to very large databases, millions of rows are returned. Also the users have to go through…
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SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Query Hint – FORCE ORDER

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, SQL Index, SQL Joins, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

SQL Server never stops to amaze me. As regular readers of this blog already know that besides conducting corporate training, I work on large-scale projects on query optimizations and server tuning projects. In one of the recent projects, I have noticed that a Junior Database Developer used the query hint Force Order; when I asked for details, I found out that the basic concept was not properly understood by him.

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