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No advantage of using Cross Apply or CTE over inline sub-query

I came across a query like this: SELECT (SELECT COUNT(1) FROM Orders o WHERE i.ItemId = o.ItemId) [C] FROM Items i I changed it to following ;WITH cte_count AS ( SELECT COUNT(1) c, OrderId FROM ...
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How Can the Same Query in Two Nearly Identical Instances Generate Two Different Execution Plans?

Server A and Server B have identical hardware and instance configurations (A is Production, B is QA). B's DBs were restored from A's backups from one week ago. I was provided this query by the ...
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