Reason for Early Termination of Statement
Wouldn't you like to know why the optimizer stopped tuning the execution plan you're looking at? It's actually possible and simple to get this information. I talked about this a little more than a year ago, but I left out some information that might be useful. Let's take a very simple query: SELECT * FROM Person.Address AS a; This generates a simple execution plan, in fact a trivial plan: I know that this is a trivial plan one of two ways. The hard way is to look at the XML (BTW, this is the type of thing you can't see it in STATISTICS PROFILE, which I understand a lot of people are using). Right at the top is the SELECT element. You can see the value for StatementOptmLevel property is…