Cardinality Estimation for a Predicate on a COUNT Expression
Paul White takes you on an optimizer journey, exploring how SQL Server comes up with cardinality estimates for COUNT queries.
2017-05-17
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Cardinality Estimates
Bad Cardinality Estimates from SSMS Plans – Redux
Aaron Bertrand shares some insight about early changes to Plan Explorer that help to provide you with the most accurate information we can.
2016-04-04
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Fixing Gatekeeper Row Cardinality Estimate Issues
The Query Optimiser needs a good estimate of the number of rows likely to be returned by each physical operator in order to select the best query plan from the most likely alternatives. Sometimes these estimates can go so wildly wrong as to result in a very slow query. Joe Sack shows how it can happen with SQL Queries on a data warehouse with a star schema.
2012-12-10
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Which of these indexes is superseded by another?
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