Execution Plan Operators

Plansplaining, part 20. SQL Graph (part 1)

Welcome to part twenty of the plansplaining series. It has been a long time since I last wrote a plansplaining post, partly because of my health, but also for a large part because I was out of ideas. But recently I decided to dig a bit deeper into a feature that was released in SQL Server 2017 and that I had so far not played with: SQL Graph.

Explore Natively Compiled SQL Server Stored Procedure Execution Plans

In this article, we look at execution plans and performance of a natively compiled stored procedure versus a traditional stored procedure.

What Is a Cost-Based Optimizer?

When you execute a query, the database server has to figure a lot of things out. For even the simplest queries, there are usually several possible ways to get the job done.

Plan Offsets

The New Lightweight Query Plan Profile Hint

SQL Server 2016 & 2017 enable a new way to get query performance metrics live via Extended Events.