Erik Darling hits one of my favorite topics:
The first rule of rewrites is that they have to produce the same results, of course. Logical equivalency is tough.
In today and tomorrow’s posts I’m going to compare a couple different scenarios to get the top value.
There are additional ways to rewrite queries like this, of course, but I’m going to show you the most common anti-pattern I see, and the most common solution that tends to work better.
Click through to see when each works better.