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AI Execution Plan Analysis: I Gave It My Plan and Asked What Was Wrong

September 16, 2026
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Parameter Sniffing, Recompile, SQL Statistics

I did not hand it a plan with a spill in it. Everybody can find a spill. I handed it a plan with no warnings at all, where every number on the screen looked healthy, and the query underneath was reading five million rows to return seventeen.

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Parameter Sensitive

Parameter Sensitive Plan optimization in SQL Server 2022 – SQL in Sixty Seconds #200

May 16, 2023
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
Execution Plan, Parameter Sniffing, SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Performance

SQL Server 2022 introduces Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization (PSPO), a feature that revolutionizes the performance of parameterized queries.

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Parameter-Sensitive

SQL SERVER 2022 – Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization (PSPO)

May 15, 2023
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Parameter Sniffing, SQL Performance, SQL Server 2022

SQL Server 2022 introduces an exciting new feature called Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization (PSPO), which aims to improve the performance.

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sql server 2022

SQL SERVER 2022 Features for Performance Optimization

November 8, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Parameter Sniffing, Query Store, SQL Server, SQL Server 2022, SQL TempDB

I am sure by this time you all are aware that Microsoft has announced SQL Server 2022. It will be released sometime next year.

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bad plan

SQL SERVER – Parameter Sniffing and Bad Plan

August 5, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Parameter Sniffing, Query Hint, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Another day and another interesting question by a client Do we still get a bad plan after disabling Parameter Sniffing? Yes!

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multiple param

SQL SERVER – Multiple Optimize Hint for a Query

November 6, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Execution Plan, Parameter Sniffing, Query Hint, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

An interesting question asked by one of my clients. The question was how to have multiple optimize hints for a query. Let us learn.

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stored

What is Stored in TempDB? – Interview Question of the Week #271

April 5, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
Parameter Sniffing, SQL Scripts, SQL TempDB

Question: What is Stored in TempDB?
Answer: In my recent conversation my client asked me if I know what is currently stored in their TempDb.

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