Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

Originally, the SuperSQL query is directly converted into a single SQL query. In some query cases, this procedure returns a large intermediate table, which typically requires a long execution time ...

Query compilation and execution form the critical backbone of database systems, where high-level queries are translated into efficient low-level machine code and then executed to retrieve data.