Interesting finding, I reckon. I see some posts on the internet about the cost of updating a column to itself; you might find a statement (or maybe you have used one) that looks like so: UPDATE TABLE
SET id = ISNULL(@var,id)
Essentially, if the variable is NULL, you update the column to itself...
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