- SqlServer StartEnd join-back: every pick join also carries the window predicate
(forward >= @start AND < @end, reverse > @start AND <= @end). Keyed on the pick
time alone a hash/merge/adaptive join read the tag's whole history (review:
43,657 vs 361 logical reads), and parameter sniffing reused that plan for every
tag. Forced OPTION (HASH JOIN), 1d@1h on 6M rows: 152,524 -> 6,756 reads.
- Usable picks (x/y) re-check the exact u predicate in the join, so a concurrent
HistoryUpdate Replace that turned the picked sample Bad/Empty reads as absent
(BadNoData), never a Bad row's value under Delta.
- StartEndJoinBackTests (integration): 300k history rows either side of a 1 h
window, forced HASH and MERGE joins, results identical to the unhinted plan and
Start/End correct, session logical reads < 1,000 (183 bounded; 8,055 with the
bound removed — the test fails then).
- TagIndexTests: the refused-ADD-INDEX test asserts the Warning naming the ALTER.
- Historian.md: re-measured table incl. long-history windows (output identical by
EXCEPT both ways in all 7 cases) and the forced-join read counts.
Joseph Doherty
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