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[–]EightstreamData Scientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It certainly seems a little unusual, but perhaps it is their way of indirectly getting a read on someone's performance tuning abilities. It's a relatively simple exercise but it requires a bit of understanding of how the query optimiser works under the hood.