Denis Gobo violates Betteridge’s Law of Headlines:
This question came up the other day from a co-worker, he said he couldn’t change a query but was there a way of making the same query produce a better plan by doing something else perhaps (magic?)
He said his query had a WHERE clause that looked like the followingWHERE RIGHT(SomeColumn,3) = '333'
I then asked if he could change the table, his answer was that he couldn’t mess around with the current columns but he could add a column
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