In this blog post I want to cover some aspects of the the new HYBRID HASH adaptive distribution method that I haven't covered yet in my other posts.As far as I know it serves two purposes for parallel HASH and MERGE JOINs, adaptive broadcast distribution and hybrid distribution for skewed join expressions. In the first part of this post I want to focus on former one.
1. Adaptive Broadcast Distribution For Small Left Row Sources
It allows the PX SEND / RECEIVE operation for the left (smaller estimated row source) of the hash join to decide dynamically at runtime, actually at each execution, if it should use either a BROADCAST or HASH distribution, and correspondingly for the other row source to use then either a ROUND-ROBIN or a HASH distribution, too.
