SQL Server Execution Plans

by Grant Fritchey

Book Overview

Every day, out in the various online forums devoted to SQL Server, and on Twitter, the same types of questions come up repeatedly: Why is this query running slowly? Why is SQL Server ignoring my index? Why does this query run quickly sometimes and slowly at others? My response is the same in each case: have you looked at the execution plan? An execution plan describes what's going on behind the scenes when SQL Server executes a query. It shows how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190643493X
• ISBN13: 9781906434939
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Red Gate Books
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.3"