Yesterday I wrote blog post based on my latest Pluralsight course on learning SQL Server 2014. I discussed newly introduced cardinality estimation in SQL Server 2014 and how it improves the performance of the query. The cardinality estimation logic is responsible for quality of query plans and majorly responsible for improving performance for any query. This logic was not updated for quite a while, but in the latest version of SQL Server 2104 this logic is re-designed. The new logic now incorporates various assumptions and algorithms of OLTP and warehousing workload.

I hope my earlier blog post clearly explained how new cardinality estimation logic improves performance. If not, I suggest you watch following quick video where I explain this concept in extremely simple words.

You can download the code used in this course from Simple Demo of New Cardinality Estimation Features of SQL Server 2014.

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Here are the blog posts I have previously written. You can read it over here:

• Simple Demo of New Cardinality Estimation Features of SQL Server 2014
• Pluralsight Course

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Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)