Avoid using “SELECT DISTINCT”, use DELETE-ADJACENT

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Avoid using “SELECT DISTINCT”, use DELETE-ADJACENT

 

This code insight ensures for performance reason, if some of the fields are not part of an index, then it is often better to avoid using SELECT DISTINCT.
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References

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187009(v=sql.105).aspx

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