MSSQL can give either a graphical query plan or a text-based one similar
to PG. There's no way that I've found to get the equivalent of an
EXPLAIN ANALYZE, but I'm by no means an MSSQL guru.
To get a neat-looking but not very useful graphical query plan from the
Query Analyzer tool, hit <Ctrl-L>.
To get the text-based one, execute "SET SHOWPLAN_ALL ON" which toggles
diagnostic mode on, and each query that you run will return the explain
plan instead of actually running until you execute "SET SHOWPLAN_ALL
OFF".
-- Mark Lewis
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 09:11 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Peter Hardman" <peter@ssbg.zetnet.co.uk> writes:
> > I wonder whether Paradox and MySQL are just not doing the sort (this
> > seems to be what eats up the time), since the output of the subquery
> > is in fact already in the proper order.
>
> MSSQL (from the other thread). I feel fairly safe in assuming that
> MySQL's query optimizer is not nearly in the league to do this query
> effectively. (I like the theory Arjen mentioned that what you are
> measuring there is the effects of their query cache rather than a
> smart fundamental implementation.) I wonder whether MSSQL has an
> EXPLAIN equivalent ...
>
> Anywy, your point about the sort being redundant is a good one, and
> offhand I'd have expected PG to catch that; I'll have to look into
> why it didn't. But that's not going to explain a 10x speed
> difference, because the sort isn't 90% of the runtime.
>
> regards, tom lane
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