1. Physical Join Operators 2010 Ami Levin

2. Session Goals SQL Server implements three different physical operators to perform joins. In this session we will see how each of these three operators work, its advantages and challenges. We will try to understand the logic behind the optimizer’s decisions on which operator to use for various joins using (semi) real life examples and see examples about how to avoid common pitfalls.

3. Equi-Inner-Join SELECTX,Y,Z… FROM[Table1] INNER JOIN [Table2] ON [Table1].[C1] = [Table2].[C1] AND [Table1].[C2] = [Table2].[C2] WHERE…

4. Next Time Outer Joins Non Equi-Joins Logical Processing Order NULL Value Issues Join Parallelism Partitioned Joins

5. What Is a Join

6. Nested Loops Fetch next row from blue input Start No More Rows? Quit True False Find matching rows in red input

7. Considerations “Outer Loop” = The Number of Iterations At Least One Small Input Preferable “Inner Operation” = Work for Each Iteration Index/Table Scan Index Seek with Lookup Covering Index Seek

8. Foreign Key Joins Joins Parents and Childs Most Common Relationship is One-to-Many Parent ISIndexed Primary Key or Unique Indexing Foreign Keys Enables Efficient Use of Nested Loops

9. Nested Loops DEMO

10. Fetch next row from blue input Start No More Rows? Quit True False Merge Fetch next row from red input Rows Match? True False

11. Considerations Input Must be Pre-Sorted By All Join Expression(s) Pre-Sorted in Plan, not necessarily in DB… Immediate& Sorted Match Outputs FASTFIRSTROW Hint Very Efficient and Simple Operator

12. Merge DEMO

13. Fetch next row from blue input Fetch next row from red input Start No more rows? No more rows? True True False False Quit Hash- Match Apply “hash” function Apply “hash” function Place row in “hash” bucket Probe bucket for matching rows

14. Considerations Hash Function Selection CPU, Memory and potential I/O Overhead No Sorting Whatsoever Probing Costs Not Revealed May Indicate Sub-Optimal Indexing

15. Hash Match DEMO

16. Conclusion

17. For More Information Books On Line Microsoft White Papers “SQL Server 2008 Internals” Kalen Delaney, Kimberly L.Tripp and more… Craig Freedman’s MSDN Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/craigfr/about.aspx

18. Physical Join Operators Q&A?

19. Thank You

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