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Execution Plan
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.
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In this article, we look at execution plans and performance of a natively compiled stored procedure versus a traditional stored procedure.
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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.
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The New Lightweight Query Plan Profile Hint
SQL Server 2016 & 2017 enable a new way to get query performance metrics live via Extended Events.
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