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Viewing Query Plans

In my last post, I explained that SQL Server executes a query by compiling it into an iterator tree which we call a query plan. So, if we want to understand iterators and query execution better, we need a way to look at query plans. Fortunately, SQL Server makes it easy to do exactly that with showplan. How many

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