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A first glimpse of SQL Sentry's Plan Explorer
Yesterday, Greg Gonzalez ( blog | twitter ) announced a beta project for SQL Sentry's latest offering: Plan Explorer. I have been playing with the early versions of the beta, and I can tell you that...
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SQL Sentry's Plan Explorer : a closer look
Today I was digging more into SQL Sentry's Plan Explorer , and I continue to discover little things I think you will find valuable in your performance tuning and troubleshooting efforts. Let's say I am...
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SQL Sentry Plan Explorer : Installation Errors
I've seen a couple of reports where the SQL Sentry Plan Explorer installer fails to recognize .NET 4.0 on your system. In some cases this is because you really don't have the full .NET 4.0 installation...
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SQL Sentry Plan Explorer : Version 1.1!
Last week, Microsoft offered up an early Christmas present: SQL Server 2005 SP4 . This week, it's SQL Sentry 's turn to play Santa Claus: several new features and fixes have been packaged up into SQL...
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A couple of fixes for Plan Explorer
This evening SQL Sentry has pushed out a new build of Plan Explorer 1.2 (build #6.1.32), fixing a couple of minor issues brought to our attention by users. Eric Humphrey ( @lotsahelp ) pointed out that...
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SQL Sentry Plan Explorer : New release and an SSMS add-in
Today we released a new build of SQL Sentry Plan Explorer. The build # is 6.2.34 and you can download it from the usual location . Plan Explorer Changes The updates in this release include the...
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Connect Digest : 2011-08-08
This week I reported a few bugs - one with sp_helptext, one with Activity Monitor in Management Studio, and one in the new sys.dm_server_services DMV. #683234 : sp_helptext treats non-system objects as...
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How to find missing indexes quickly in SQL Sentry Plan Explorer
This question came up on twitter, and I thought a quick blog post would be better than a series of 140-character snippets. Management Studio does not do the best job at highlighting missing indexes. If...
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A demo kit for SQL Sentry Plan Explorer
Plan Explorer is a free application from SQL Sentry , designed to make execution plan analysis faster and easier. It was developed in response to customer demand for deeper query analysis, but was...
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Why generalizations are dangerous
A couple of years ago, John Sansom wrote a blog post comparing the performance of two different ways to get the maximum value from a column: MAX() and TOP (1)....
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SQL Sentry Plan Explorer v1.3
On Friday, we published a new version of our free query plan analysis tool, SQL Sentry Plan Explorer . As noted in the change list , we've added a couple of important features. SQL Server 2012 support...
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Getting graphical ShowPlans back in SQL Server 2008 R2
For those of you using the SQL Server 2008 R2 version of Management Studio, and have applied Service Pack 1, you have probably noticed that clicking on a ShowPlan in grid results no longer shows the...
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Comparing multiple plans in SQL Sentry Plan Explorer
I’ve seen the question a few times now: “How do I compare two plans side-by-side in Plan Explorer?” Management Studio allows you to view multiple graphical plans that are visible simultaneously, either...
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