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Month: April 2018

The Segment operator, an error in Books Online

Hugo Kornelis
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If you are as obsessed with execution plans as I am, you must be familiar with this page in Books Online: Showplan Logical and Physical Operators Reference. I must admit that I have mixed feelings about it. My problem with this page is the confusing way in which it mixes physical operators, logical operations (called logical operators on that page to add to the confusion), and operators that only exist in intermediate phases of query optimization and that we will never see in actual execution plans. But I do like it for presenting all operators that exist, with a short…

T-SQL Tuesday #101: A few of my favorite tools

Hugo Kornelis
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Back in 2009, Adam Machanic (b|t) started an initiative that is still going strong: T-SQL Tuesday. This is a monthly blog party. Every second Tuesday of each month, lots of people blog about the same topic, selected by the host for that month. And now, in the 99th installment, I decided to finally join in! The April 2018 edition is hosted by Jens Vestergaard (b|t). His challenge for this month: write about the tools, other than SSMS and VSDT, that we use for our work. Essential tools The full invitation even includes words such as “essential” tools, and “depend on…

Plansplaining, part 4. Let’s repartition the streams.

Hugo Kornelis
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This is the fourth post in the plansplaining series. Each of these blog posts focuses on a sample execution plan that exposes an uncommon and interesting pattern, and details exactly how that plan works. In the first post, I covered each individual step of each operator in great detail, to make sure that everyone understands exactly how operators work in the pull-based execution plans. In this post (and all future installments), I will leave out the details that I now assume to be known to my readers. If you did not read part 1 already, I suggest you start there.…

Hugo Kornelis

Married, father of 2 children.

Awarded 13x MVP (2006-2016; 2019-now), in the areas SQL Server and Data Platform.

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