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by jve 1545 days ago
> Just doing a hash join is simply the better option.

Maybe he meant just that - hash join has to populate hashtable before joining.

Regarding B-Tree index, perhaps he thought Automatic Index management - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/au... - but it must be enabled explicitly. But I don't feel like it is "on-the-fly". Rather in-background.