• ramana3327 (5/29/2014)


    They want to me create the a temptable or table variable for the main query output and then try to avoid the left outer join.

    They want you to add additional overhead and still have to use a left join to the temp table in order to degrade performance further? Sounds legit.

    Gail Shaw
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