[Solved] SQL Server 2012 join perfomance features?

How to optimize this SQL query?

In case you have your own slow SQL query, you can optimize it automatically here.

For the query above, the following recommendations will be helpful as part of the SQL tuning process.
You'll find 3 sections below:

  1. Description of the steps you can take to speed up the query.
  2. The optimal indexes for this query, which you can copy and create in your database.
  3. An automatically re-written query you can copy and execute in your database.
The optimization process and recommendations:
  1. Create Optimal Indexes (modified query below): The recommended indexes are an integral part of this optimization effort and should be created before testing the execution duration of the optimized query.
Optimal indexes for this query:
CREATE INDEX a_idx_aid_other1 ON A (Aid,Other1);
CREATE INDEX a_b_idx_aid ON A_B (Aid);
CREATE INDEX b_idx_bid ON B (BId);
The optimized query:
SELECT
        TOP (20) A.Aid,
        A.Name,
        B.Bid,
        B.Name 
    FROM
        A 
    INNER JOIN
        A_B 
            ON A.AId = A_B.Aid 
    INNER JOIN
        A AS AA 
            ON AA.Aid = A_B.Aid 
    INNER JOIN
        B 
            ON B.BId = A_B.Bid 
    WHERE
        AA.Aid = @aid 
        AND A.Other1 = @other1

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