The analyzer can determine how many IOs each approach will take and choose the fastest way to do it.<BR><BR>Basically the estimated execution plan is mostly what the query optimizer does when it's ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...