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Query Optimization and Execution

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SQL Server Query Processor is perhaps the least visible and least well-known part of SQL Server. It does not expose a large set of public features, and it allows very limited control in a documented and supported way. It accepts a query as input, compiles and optimizes it to generate the execution plan, and finally executes it.

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Korotkevitch, D. (2016). Query Optimization and Execution. In: Pro SQL Server Internals. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1964-5_25

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