Can You Dig It? – Find All Plans for a Database

With today's SQL Server instances, there easily be anywhere from a dozen to a hundred databases on a single SQL Server instance.  In fact, on my laptop, I currently have almost two dozen databases and these are just from working on projects. Setup a SharePoint server and add a few sites and you'll easily see … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Find All Plans for a Database

Can You Dig It? – Researching Index Scans

Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. It’s been a while since the last plan cache series post.   In the last few posts, I was focusing on specific attributes.  Instead of continuing on that vein, I want to cover a use case that fit … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Researching Index Scans

Can You Dig It? – Plan Cache Series

A few PASS Summit’s ago, I became interested in the information available in the Plan Cache.  As part of that interest, I started digging into the plan cache to  find out what is there and available to be pulled out. Some of those investigations led to a few presentations; which have in turn led to … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Plan Cache Series

Can You Dig It? – Find Estimated Cost

Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. It’s the eighth post in the plan cache series.  I hadn’t expect to take as many days off from this due to the 31 Days of SSIS, but that one had a stricter time table that I … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Find Estimated Cost

Can You Dig It? – Find Estimated RowCounts

Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. She can dig it! D Sharon Pruitt It’s the eighth post in the plan cache series.  I took a few days off to start up a new blog series, I had considered holding that series until March … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Find Estimated RowCounts

Can You Dig It? – StmtSimple Element

We’re up to the seventh post on the in the plan cache series.  This time we’ll be talking about the last of the possible children for the Statements elements – the StmtSimple element.  StmtSimple, commonly referred to as statement simple, can contain the plan information for a query plan, a store procedure, or a user … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – StmtSimple Element

Can You Dig It? – StmtCursor and StmtReceive Elements

Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. She can dig it! D Sharon Pruitt A few posts ago in the plan cache series I discussed the children for the Statements element.  I’ve gotten through two of the elements and in this post we’ll be … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – StmtCursor and StmtReceive Elements

Can You Dig It? – StmtCond Element

Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. She can dig it! D Sharon Pruitt A couple posts ago in the plan cache series I discussed the children for the Statements element.  This next post will focus on the second of the five possible child … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – StmtCond Element

Can You Dig It? – StmtUseDb Element

Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. She can dig it! D Sharon Pruitt The last post in the plan cache series discussed the children for the Statements element.  As I noted in that post, there are five possible children.  This post will focus … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – StmtUseDb Element

Can You Dig It? – SHOWPLAN XML Structure

Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. She can dig it! D Sharon Pruitt In the last couple plan cache posts, I talked about a couple items that are available within the SHOWPLAN XML for an execution plan.  These posts looked at how to … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – SHOWPLAN XML Structure