Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 01/18/07 23:04

Bob Barrows [MVP] (reb01501@NOyahoo.SPAMcom) writes:
> Now you've got me really intrigued. Based on everything I've ever read,
> IN comparisons are supposed to be non-sargable, and therefore
> non-optimizable. Someone from the SQL Server groups please correct me if
> I am wrong.

coi IN (val1, val2, ...)

is just a shortcut for

col1 = val1 OR col2 = val2 OR ...

and it's perfectly possible for the optimizer to work with IN to produce a
good plan. The main problem is that for many values, the optimization time
can exceed the real execution time by far.


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