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The first step is to look at the execution plan for the query and see if there are any glaring problems. Put the query in a new query window in SQL Server Management Studio. Looking at the ...

SQL Server has an optimizer that usually does a great job of optimizing code for the most effective execution. A query execution plan is the breakdown of how the optimizer will run (or ran ...