May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
484 pages
11h 23m
English
Similarly, having information on the actual number of rows that flowed through the operators allows database professionals to track the most expensive areas of a plan. The Actual Number of Rows (ActualRows* in showplan XML) shows the number of rows output by an operator after any predicates were applied. The Number of Rows Read (ActualRowsRead* in showplan XML) shows the number of rows read before predicates were applied.
In the following screenshot, we see the detail for both properties in the same clustered index scan:

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