Monday, September 27, 2004

Use Microsoft Jet's ShowPlan to write more efficient queries

Use Microsoft Jet's ShowPlan to write more efficient queries

While reading some posts on the Access newsgroup, I came across this article about optimizing your Access queries. One of the most powerful features of SQL Server is being able to view the execution plan of a query. With this relatively simple registry hack, you can accomplish a very similar feature in Access, by forcing Access to export the execution plan to a text file.

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