Louis Davidson disambiguates a pair of terms:
There have been a lot of posts on LinkedIn of late about the “logical execution order” of a query that all really miss some really big points. I was corrected myself in some terminology because I mistook the term “processing” to mean the same as “order” in these discussions when I was explaining why logical execution order is not what people expected.
Click through for a good explanation, as well as a plan to have your company pay for your Disney World trip.
I also appreciate how Louis still calls it SQL Sentry Plan Explorer because that’s what it always will be in my heart.