Re: More pain and sufferring with Tropashko's materialized path...

From: --CELKO-- <joe.celko_at_northface.edu>
Date: 18 Sep 2003 10:21:29 -0700
Message-ID: <a264e7ea.0309180921.51b4de35_at_posting.google.com>


>> but further research leads me to believe this isn't such a good
idea anyway, because apparently, with MS-SQL at least, applying a UDF per row tends to screw up query optimisation on large trees (something to do with serialization). <<

The UDF causes SQL Server to revert to row at a time processing rather than set oriented processing. It is a big hit, as you found out. Received on Thu Sep 18 2003 - 19:21:29 CEST

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