Customizing the appearance of graphical plans

After executing the graphical plan you can customize the appearance of items in the plan. To change the appearance of the graphical plan, right-click the plan in the lower left pane of the Interactive SQL Plan Viewer, select Customize, and change the settings. Your changes are applied to subsequent graphical plans that are displayed.

To print a graphical plan, right-clicking the plan and choose Print.

Following is a query presented with its corresponding graphical plan. The diagram is in the form of a tree, indicating that each node requests rows from the nodes beneath it.

The Details tab in Interactive SQL, showing the graphical plan for a query.