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? – Missing Indexes

Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. She can dig it! D Sharon Pruitt When I started using XQuery to dig into the plan cache, it was just searching for some parallelism and I really wasn’t aware that I was using XQuery.  I just … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Missing Indexes

Can You Dig It? – Parallelism in the Plan Cache

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 lead in to this post, I talked about how the plan cache can be a gold mine of information.  There are a number of places that one can … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Parallelism in the Plan Cache

Can You Dig It? – The Plan Cache

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 this new series of posts, I plan to investigate the SQL Server plan cache.  We’ll start with a little introduction of the plan cache and move into ways in … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – The Plan Cache

Really Search Cache for Execution Plans

Today’s stored procedure that you can use in your DBA database is a re-hash of a post I did a couple months ago.  The reason for re-hashing the procedure is that when I used it last week I found out there were some serious issues with its results.  Some plans were being duplicated and the … Continue reading Really Search Cache for Execution Plans