Query Execution
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Improved Workload Management implementation that no longer needs to be tuned via the
workload_engine variable; this variable is now deprecated.management_ expected_ aggregators  - 
      
Support for multi-statement transactions that use distributed joins.
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Support for multi-statement transactions that write to a database and then read from a different database.
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Added a session variable
node_that specifies the number of threads per node to use for columnstore table scans.degree_ of_ parallelism  - 
      
Queries that use the
INfilter on shard keys now perform better. - 
      
Hash joins that use reference tables now perform better.
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The
data_engine variable can now be set toconversion_ compatibility_ level 7..0 This allows errors to be thrown for more invalid type conversions, instead of doing implicit type conversions, where the user could see unexpected results.  - 
      
Now, a maximum of 1024 tables can be written to in a transaction.
 
Last modified: April 24, 2021