verb (used with object), improved, improving. 1. to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health. 2. to make (land) more useful, profitable, or valuable by enclosure, cultivation, etc. 3. to increase the value of (real property) by betterments, as the construction of buildings and sewers.
Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water with no artificial sweetener. Part of building a successful small business is keeping your foot on the gas even when you aren't in the office.
In the English language a hint is a gentle suggestion, but in SQL Server a hint is a directive. A hint tells the SQL Server optimizer what should be in the query plan and the optimizer will do it, unless the hint is impossible to implement. In fact, many people talk about using hints as forcing a query plan.