In SQL Server, it`s not always required to fully understand the internal structure, especially for performance and optimization, if the database design is good, because SQL Server is a very powerful Relational Database and, as such, it has many inbuilt optimization processes which assure a response to the users as fast as possible. But it is always beneficial for the SQL Server developers and administrators to understand the internal structure of the SQL Server so that they can understand and fix the problems that slowed the response of the Database.

This article is the second part of the Nested Loop Join Series. In the first part, Introduction of Nested Loop Join, we gave a brief introduction to Native, Indexed and Temporary Index Nested Loop Joins along with CPU cost details.

A relational database system uses SQL as the language for querying and maintaining databases. To see the data of two or more tables together, we need to join the tables; the joining can be further categorized into INNER JOIN, LEFT OUTER JOIN, RIGHT OUTER JOIN, FULL OUTER JOIN, and CROSS JOIN. All these types of joins that we use are actually based on the requirement of the users.