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A SELECT without modifications doesn't have to roll back, as there's nothing to undo. It won't stop instantly, but it doesn't rollback. If,...

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And yes, changing the timeout from 30 seconds to 5 minutes may stop it timing out, but it's not fixing the problem (slow...

I shouldn't post when I'm exhausted. Saw the @ and brain interpreted as a parameter.

204 is not a problematic number. I wouldn't worry with that number. Several thousands is where I'd probably start to worry

If you do want to fix it,  neither...

I probably wouldn't consider sparse without having 95%+ being null and having a good number of the columns in the table mbeing mostly null. It's a feature with a specific...

The first has to read the Dept table once (for the join), the second has to read it twice (once for each subquery). The first is easier to read and...

You've got a catch-all type query. They're slow (and writing the WHERE clause in a more complicated form doesn't make that any better)

https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/t-sql-programming/how-to-confuse-the-sql-server-query-optimizer/

WITH RECOMPILE...

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