valeryk2000 (7/2/2013)
Sean,On larger chank of data your CTE-based qry runs 2.5 times faster.
I learned a lot from this discussion.
Thanks, brothers ....
Take a look at the execution plan on the larger chunk of data. You will notice that massive block for FILTER will be gone. That was consuming a huge amount of resources previously.
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