Is that a new "feature"? Older articles like this indicate that a CASE statement does short circuit and can be used for that express purpose due to the execution plan optimizing the query and its ...

Query compilation and execution form the critical backbone of database systems, where high-level queries are translated into efficient low-level machine code and then executed to retrieve data.

Payment for order flow (where market makers pay brokers to route orders for execution) and the duty of best execution (which requires a broker to seek the most favorable terms reasonably available for ...