Klaus Aschenbrenner

Cardinality Estimation Limitations

As you might know, SQL Server uses internally Statistics to estimate how many rows are returned from a specific query. That process is called the Cardinality Estimation. Based on the output from the Cardinality Estimation the Query Optimizer generates an Execution Plan, which is cached and finally executed. In today’s blog posting I’m going to talk …

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Do you ever wanted to know how a simple CPU is actually implemented?

Today’s blog posting is a little bit off-topic, but still quite interested when you work in the IT area. Maybe a few of you already know it, but over the last few years I have worked (and I’m still working) on a quite interesting side project: I’m developing my own CPU based on primitive AND, …

Do you ever wanted to know how a simple CPU is actually implemented? + read more