Welcome back! In the previous parts, I first showed how a Hash Match (Left Outer Join) can give insight in the order of data in a hash table, and then used that trick to obtain and verify some interesting insights into the internal structure of such a table. It’s now time to see if this...| SQLServerFast
In part 1 of this series, I laid the foundation to explore the structure of the hash table, as used by the Hash Match operator, by alleging and then proving that a Hash Match (Left Outer Join) returns unmatched rows from the build input in the order in which they are stored in the hash...| SQLServerFast