In the previous instalment of this series I introduced three ways of accessing the run-time statistics for a query and described, for one of the methods, the basics of the information we can get and how we can use it. In this article I want to expand on the use of one method to show it can help use identify… Read more
I’ve offered up “first child first, recursive descent” as a basic strategy for interpreting execution plans – but it’s not a perfect rule, and it can be easy to lose track of what’s going on even when the basic “first child first” is being obeyed. In this article we’ll be looking at a couple of examples where we will st… Read more