In this post we continue looking at the Cardinality Estimator (CE). The article explores some join estimation algorithms in the details, however this is not a comprehensive join estimation analysis, the goal of this article is to give a reader a flavor of join estimation in SQL Server.
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Batch Sort and Nested Loops
Continuing my blog post series after 24HOP Russia “Query Processor Internals – Joins”.
In this (and the next one) blog post, we will talk about the Nested Loops Post Optimization Rewrite optimizations.
Hash Join Execution Internals
Two days ago, on the 24HOP Russia I was talking about the Query Processor internals and joins. Despite I had three hours, I felt the lack of time, and something left behind, because it is a huge topic, if you try to cover it in different aspects in details. With the few next articles, I’ll try to describe some interesting parts of my talk in more details. I will start with Hash Join execution internals.