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Pro SQL Server Internals
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Pro SQL Server Internals

by Dmitri Korotkevitch
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
804 pages
22h 17m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 26

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Plan Caching

Query Optimization is resource-intensive process that could introduce significant CPU load on busy servers. SQL Server tries to minimize such load by caching plans in a special part of process memory called plan cache.

This chapter talks about plan caching in detail, and it consists of two parts: the first part provides a high-level overview of plan caching, and it discusses several issues associated with it. The second part dives deeper into plan cache internals, and it discusses the various data management views that you can use for plan cache monitoring.

Plan Caching Overview

SQL Server prevents unnecessary recompilations ...

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