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Time truncation SARGability test

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  1. WITH
  2.         E00(N) AS (SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1),
  3.         E02(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E00 a, E00 b),
  4.         E04(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E02 a, E02 b),
  5.         E08(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E04 a, E04 b),
  6.         E16(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E08 a, E08 b),
  7.         E32(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E16 a, E16 b),
  8.    cteTally(N) AS (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY N) FROM E32)
  9. SELECT N, (N % 10) + (N % 33) AS SomeData, Convert(DateTime, RAND(convert(varbinary, newid())) * 10000) AS SomeDate
  10. INTO #SomeTable
  11. FROM cteTally
  12. WHERE N < 1000000
  13.  
  14. --create a quite-specific index
  15. CREATE INDEX SomeTable_TempIndex ON #SomeTable (SomeDate)
  16.  
  17. --search for single day using inequalities - SARGable, optimizer uses index + key lookup
  18. SELECT * FROM #SomeTable WHERE SomeDate >= '1900-11-16' AND SomeDate < DateAdd(Day, 1, '1900-11-16')
  19.  
  20. --search for single day by truncating time from the column - non-SARGable, optimizer does a table scan, estimated cost 13X the previous version
  21. SELECT * FROM #SomeTable WHERE DATEADD(DAY, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, SomeDate), 0) = '1900-11-16'
  22.  
  23. -- do a date range search
  24. SELECT * FROM #SomeTable WHERE SomeDate >= '1900-11-16' AND SomeDate < DateAdd(Day, 1, '1900-11-18')
  25.  
  26. -- do a date range search with (pointless) time truncation, just to check behaviour is consistent, without SARGing
  27. SELECT * FROM #SomeTable WHERE DATEADD(DAY, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, SomeDate), 0) >= '1900-11-16' AND DATEADD(DAY, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, SomeDate), 0) <= '1900-11-18'
  28.  
  29. DROP TABLE #SomeTable
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