I came across a question in the relationalserver.performance newsgroup where a customer was wondering about the spools seen in a recursive query execution plan. The query is shown below: USE Northwind; Go WITH EmpChart AS ( SELECT EmployeeId, ReportsTo,
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SQL Server 2005 has new optimization logic to use the SCHEMABINDING option to derive certain properties about the TSQL UDF. This can greatly improve performance of queries that use scalar UDFs in a SELECT statement for example. You can read all about
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