I need to be up front with you, dear reader, and tell you that you’re probably never going to need to know this.
I try to blog about stuff people need to know to get their job done – things that will be genuinely useful in your day-to-day performance tuning and management of SQL Server. This, however, is not one of those things. This is fun, obscure trivia, documenting a situation you’ll probably never run into, prompted by Forrest’s post proving that compilation time includes more than parse time.
Start with a hard-to-compile query plan.
I’ll use any Stack Overflow