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It was ugly.
The old one had taken nine minutes.
Ananya hated the phrase “legacy system.” It sounded like a cemetery, not a database. sql 2019 developer
She pulled up SQL Server Management Studio. The screen glowed blue in the dark office. She ran the query plan.
She smiled.
She rewrote the cursor loop as a set-based UPDATE with a CTE . She added OPTION (RECOMPILE) to stop SQL Server from caching a bad plan for tomorrow’s data.
In 0.4 seconds.
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