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Live Execution Plan of a Running Query: SQL in Sixty Seconds #073

A live execution plan shows how far a query has gotten while it is still running. This post builds a slow query on SQL Server 2025, watches it through sys.dm_exec_query_profiles from a second window, and explains why rows divided by the estimate is a progress meter only when the estimate is right.

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