I had a good question from JP via a comment on my blog about whether you can use the MAXDOP query hint in Azure SQL Database. The answer? Yes.

Just to prove it, my first query I prevent parallelism via MAXDOP = 1.

SELECT *
FROM [dbo].[GlobalAudi]
ORDER BY Date
OPTION (MAXDOP 1)
GO

I check the operator properties of the clustered scan where parallel is false.

So what happens with the below query?

SELECT *
FROM [dbo].[GlobalAudi]
ORDER BY Date
OPTION (MAXDOP 2)
GO

It is as you would expect.

Now a question for you, which one was faster?