March 2009
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
23h 49m
English
book
Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Querying
by Lubor Kollar Itzik Ben-Gan Dejan Sarka, and Steve Kass
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Tools for Query Tuning
This section provides an overview of the query-tuning tools that will be used throughout these books, and it will focus on analyzing execution plans.
Cached Query Execution Plans
SQL Server 2008 provides several objects that you can query to analyze the behavior of cached query execution plans:
The sys.dm_exec_cached_plans DMV contains information about the cached query execution plans, with a row per each cached plan.
The sys.dm_exec_plan_attributes DMF contains one row per attribute associated with the plan, whose handle is provided as input to the DMF.
The sys.dm_exec_sql_text DMF returns the text associated with the query, whose handle is provided as input to the DMF.
The sys.dm_exec_query_plan DMF provides the XML form of ...
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