SQL Sentry Plan Explorer was launched two years ago and has since become one of the most popular free tools available to the SQL Server Community. The latest version adds several requested features, ...

The analyzer can determine how many IOs each approach will take and choose the fastest way to do it.<BR><BR>Basically the estimated execution plan is mostly what the query optimizer does when it's ...

I have a cleanup task that occurs before a backup task in a Maint Plan. The cleanup task deletes all .bak files >1 week old, but that isn't happening. The log shows as success, but no further details.