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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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Pete O'Hanlon6-Nov-07 23:12
mvePete O'Hanlon6-Nov-07 23:12 
GuyThiebaut wrote:
I am in the same camp as you here, however when I looked at the execution plan both queries have very similar execution plans.
In the end neither was faster.


To a large extent, the execution plan is immaterial here. What matters more is the amount of data that is returned over the network. If you only need one column, why put more load on what may already be a busy network by returning 20?

Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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