Saturday 2 November 2024

Parallelism operator in SQL server execution plan

 The Parallelism Operator appears in an execution plan when SQL Server decides to execute parts of a query in parallel across multiple processors. The goal is to improve query performance by dividing the workload, allowing SQL Server to process data faster for large and complex queries. Parallelism is most beneficial when working with large datasets, complex joins, or aggregation operations.

Icon of Parallelism operator

For example

Suppose we have a bundle of paper and we want to count it. I can count it myself or I distribute this bundle with our team’s member and team member can count and aggregate then and get the total count. This has advantage like we will get the count very quickly. And Disadvantage of this like we are consuming expensive resource. In same way in the SQL server for the complex task SQL server distribute the task in multiple threads to perform the task. This process known as Parallelism in SQL server.

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