So Ananya did what any developer would do: she cheated.
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She created a non-clustered columnstore index on the fly. Not on the main Prod table—she wasn't insane—but on a snapshot replica. Then she used WITH (NOEXPAND) to trick the optimizer into using it. So Ananya did what any developer would do: she cheated
She closed her laptop. Outside, the city was asleep. But somewhere in a rack of blinking servers, a million rows of inventory data danced into perfect alignment. sql 2019 developer
The old one had taken nine minutes.
Another Friday night saved by the quiet, absolute power of a well-written WHERE clause.