Tag: Optimization

In these articles, you will see me reference execution plans a lot – talk about them, provide screenshots etc. I assume that the reader has some level of knowledge about what an execution plan is, how to view them and how to understand them. This post is aimed at those readers who do not have…

In my previous post on execution plans we looked at what an execution plan is, how SQL Server creates them and why we might use them, now we’ll delve a little further. Recap We very briefly compared two SQL Server execution plans on two queries against the Stack Overflow 2010 database provided under cc-by-sa 4.0…