Improving on Solarized using the OKLab perceptual colorspace

I was a long-time user of Ethan Schoonover’s Solarized, an aesthetically-pleasing and very usable color scheme for the terminal and code editors. However, I found the contrast lacking, and I usually ended up tweaking the background and foreground colors to stand out a bit more.

Learn why SQL Server execution plans carry too many columns through expensive operations like sorts and hash joins, causing memory grants and slow query performance. Discover two techniques to optimize wide queries using temp tables and derived tables.