As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

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Your VS Code workflow is probably slower than it needs to be, but if you use the Command Palette you'll be faster.

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