SAP HANA 2.0 Administration · Performance Analysis: SQL Tuning & Plan Analysis

A junior admin reads an SAP HANA execution plan top-to-bottom and concludes the first listed operator runs first. Why is that backwards, and how is the true order reconstructed?

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