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Why am I getting an implicit conversion of Int / Smallint to Varchar, and is it really impacting Cardinality Estimates?

I'm trying to trouble shoot a slow performing query using Show Plan Analysis (SSMS) on the actual execution plan. The Analysis tool points out that estimates for number of rows are off from returned ...
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"Warnings: Operation caused residual I/O" versus key lookups

I've seen this warning in SQL Server 2017 execution plans: Warnings: Operation caused residual IO [sic]. The actual number of rows read was (3,321,318), but the number of rows returned was 40. ...
Henrik Staun Poulsen's user avatar