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Query Hints: Ad Hoc vs Query Store

Grant Fritchey sets up a showdown:

I recently presented a session on the Query Store at Data Saturday Rhineland and the question came up: If there’s already a query hint on a query, what happens when you try to force a similar query hint?

Yeah, OK, that is a weird one. I don’t know the answer, but I’m about to find out.

Click through for a very interesting demo. To be honest, I expected the opposite result, so this was surprising.