View Plans Using the Interactive SQL Plan Viewer

The Plan Viewer is a graphical tool for viewing graphical plans for databases.

The Plan Viewer window is divided into panes:

Plan Viewer Panes
Pane	Description
SQL pane	Provides a place for you to type SQL statements that you want to generate plans for.
Results pane	Shows the graphical plan.
Details pane	Provides text details about the plan

Starting the Plan Viewer
Starting the Plan Viewer opens it in a separate window.
Viewing Graphical Plans in Interactive SQL
You can view the query optimizer's execution plan for an SQL statement in the Plan Viewer window in Interactive SQL.
Configuring the Graphical Plan
After executing the graphical plan, you can customize the appearance of items in the plan.
Printing the Plan
You can print a plan in the Plan Viewer.

Parent topic: dbisql Interactive SQL Utility

Related tasks

Creating a Query Using the Query Editor

Related reference

Interactive SQL Window Reference

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