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  • February 13, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    #778188

    Check the link in the first post. It's a blog post by Conor Cunningham, former member of the SQL Server Query processing team and former development lead on the Query Optimizer. He explains why there's a (very, ver, very small) difference

    Gail Shaw
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