SQLSaturday Cape Town Precon-Understanding Execution Plans with Hugo Kornelis

ABOUT

Presenter:

Hugo Kornelis is an established SQL Server community expert who spends a lot of time at various conferences. He is also a blogger, technical editor of a variety of books, and Pluralsight author. He is a SQL Server MVP since 2006.
When not working for the community, he is busy at his day job: freelance database developer/consultant.
Hugo has almost 20 years of SQL Server experience in various roles. He has a strong database design background but also loves to write and tune complex queries.

Course details:

For troubleshooting long-running queries, looking at the execution plan is often a good starting point. Once you know how the query is executed, you know why it's slow and what you can do to speed it up.
But what if the execution plan is just beyond your understanding? What if it uses operators you have seen before, but do not really understand? What if you look at the execution plan, but just don't see the problem?

In this full-day workshop, you will learn everything you need to be able to read and understand any execution plan. We'll start with an overview of execution plans as a whole, and then dive in and look at all the components, and how they fit together. This will increase your understanding on why the optimizer picks a plan, and what you can do to make it pick a better plan.
Whether you have read your share of execution plans or whether you wouldn't know where to find them, this workshop will teach you everything you need to know about execution plans.