David Alcock shows us the button not to press:
A while ago I presented a session which covered transformation rules that are used by the query optimiser to produce our execution plans. I’m not feeling in the mood for relational algebra this morning so instead I’ll introduce a command that can cause mayhem on an instance SQL Server: DBCC RULEOFF.
DBCC RULEOFF is an undocumented command, that alone makes me want to use it but in order to cover one’s backside please don’t do any of the following in any environment apart from a disposable sandbox that only you use for weird and wonderful experiments in SQL Server, because we are going to break it…
Read on for something you can but should not do.