Gilbert Quevauvilliers doesn’t waste time:
I had a requirement where I wanted to only have the underlying query run if there was data in the table.
As shown in the image below a query would run, scan 20GB and then return zero rows.
Instead of performing such an expensive scan, Gilbert provides an alternative. This is important in the case of querying the Synapse serverless SQL pool, as Gilbert does—in that case, the 20GB scan costs money.