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NLJOIN

For the NLJOIN operator, the following input arguments are shown:

Early out
A flag that is true if only one inner row matching outer row is needed ("early out").

Join predicates
The join predicates upon which the join is performed.

Max pages for IXSCAN
The maximum number of leaf pages of the index for the inner join, expected to be read from disk for all rows of the outer join. The closer this number is to zero, the more the prefetch quantity will be reduced.

Max pages for FETCH
The maximum number of pages of the table for the inner join, expected to be read from disk for all rows of the outer join. The closer this number is to zero, the more the prefetch quantity will be reduced.

Outer join type
A flag indicating which type of outer join this NLJOIN operator is performing:
Note:Maximum pages for FETCH or IXSCAN on the inner join represents the number of pages read per outer row of a join.

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