How Eager Index Spools Cause Performance Problems
Going Further
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I followed along and took it one step further, indexing the Users table as you mentioned:
CREATE index ix_users_rep on dbo.users (reputation, id) include (displayname) with (maxdop=8, sort_in_tempdb = on);
That further reduced my query time from 12 ms to effectively 0 ms. This has been a great series, thanks for publishing it.
Very good! Thanks for watching, and for the kind words.