SQLServer

Plan Caching

Today I want to talk more about Plan Caching and its side-effects in SQL Server. As you might know, every logical query submitted to SQL Server is compiled into a physical execution plan. That execution plan is afterwards cached in the so-called Plan Cache for further reuse. Let’s talk in the first step about adhoc SQL statements …

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The Performance Penalty of Bookmark Lookups in SQL Server

I have previously very often talked on my weblog about Bookmark Lookups in SQL Server, and how bad they can be regarding the various problems they introduce. In today’s blog posting I want to talk a little bit more about the performance aspect of Bookmark Lookups, and how they can slow down your whole SQL …

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