Louis Davidson gives it the college try:
When I was perusing my LinkedIn feed the other day, I came across this thread about using SELECT *. In one of the replies, Aaron Cutshall noted that: “Another real performance killer is
SELECT DISTINCT
especially when combined withUNION
. I have a whole list of commonly used hidden performance killers!”To which started my brain thinking… What does happen when you use these together? And when you use UNION on a set with non-distinct rows, what happens. So for the next few hours I started writing.
Read on for Louis’s findings.
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