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Re:Pipe Syntax in SQL by wvenable on Sunday August 25, 2024 @01:12PM (#41349103)
If you use temp tables you're subverting the optimizer. Sometimes that's what you want but often it's not.
Re:Pipe Syntax in SQL by RaftPeople on Sunday August 25, 2024 @04:51PM (#41351306)
I use them on purpose to "help" the optimizer by reducing the search space for query plan ((knowing that query plan optimization is a combinatorial problem and the optimizer frequently can't evaluate enough plans in a reasonable amount of time).