SQL Sentry Plan Explorer versions

Efficient query tuning with intuitive plan analysis
Oct 19, 2020
9.0
Jan 1, 2016
Review
8.5
Sep 15, 2015
Review
8.4
Jun 8, 2015
8.1
Sep 18, 2014
Review
7.5
Sep 12, 2013
Review
7.4
Mar 21, 2013
7.2
Dec 3, 2012
Review
6.4
Nov 28, 2011
6.2
Sep 1, 2011
6.0
Feb 9, 2011
Review

What's new

v9.0 [Jan 1, 2016]
- Compute Scalar operations with 0 cost will receive their row counts from upstream operations in live plans and plan replays
- Replay controls can disappear while scrubbing the playback line
- The "With Live Query Profile" checkbox displayed in the Get Actual Plan dropdown is dependent on the user preference setting when the tab was generated
- Completed statements continue to animate during replay playback for some statements
- Exception "The given key was not present in the dictionary"
- Exception "The wait completed due to an abandoned mutex"

v8.5 [Sep 15, 2015]
Add Comment/Uncomment buttons to toolbar
Restrict the number of trace rows returned to 1000
Anonymize Command Text and Text Data
Show partition columns in Plan Tree and tooltips
Extract parameters from Command Text to populate runtime value for estimated plans
Add Top Rows number to Top N sort tooltip.

v8.1 [Sep 18, 2014]
New features:
- SSMS Add-in bundled with Plan Explorer.
- Support SQL Server 2014 showplan attributes and operators.
- Show startup expressions in operators.
Fixes:
- User exception received: "System.Management.ManagementException: Not found".
- Error message may be hidden from status bar.
- Parameterized Text is not being properly anonymized.
- Some Columnstore Updates are showing as Clustered Index Updates.
- Save All command does not save plans loaded directly from the SSMS add-in.

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