Estimated execution plan not showing?

  • Anyone had an issue when requesting the estimated execution plan which is not showing? Either using the icon or the shortcut (well I would have been surprised that each behave differently but I did give it a try, who knows?)

    The message windows state (1 row(s) affected) and the lower status (in yellow by default) bar shows "Query executed successfully" without showing any plan.

    Even opening a new connection or completely a new instance of SSMS does the same thing. Others queries are not affected by this.

    It is SQL Server 2008 SP1 Dev No CU English x86, running on WinXP SP3

  • What's the query that you're running? If you run the query with the actual exec plan option on, do you see the execution plan?

    Gail Shaw
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  • This is the reason I wanted to use the estimated one, having a feeling of what it looks like rapidly. Using the actual one would take a long time to setup properly and make it run.

    I've achieved what I wanted to do by removing some portion of the code and estimated back.

    (an old C++ compiler trick when it didn't want to compile for obscure reasons)

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