>Hi!
>   I have a consultant onsite at a client, and she's sending back
>pictures of the query plan for a script with a performance issue. These
>are useful, as they're turning out somewhat different from the
>development and test machines. But, is there any way we can pass the
>query plan so that I can look at it in Query Analyzer's fine query plan
>renderer?
>Thanks!
>Ion
>
> 
>

>Ion,
>
>SQL Server 2005 has this feature, but not SQL Server 2000.
>In SQL Server 2005 Management Studio, you can save and
>reopen query plans saved as .sqlplan files (which are XML files).
>There might be a third-party tool that can render the graphical plan
>from the SHOWPLAN_TEXT text plan - at least it's conceivable -
>but I don't know of one.
>
>Steve Kass
>Drew University
>
>
>
>ionFree***@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>   I have a consultant onsite at a client, and she's sending back
>>pictures of the query plan for a script with a performance issue. These
>>are useful, as they're turning out somewhat different from the
>>development and test machines. But, is there any way we can pass the
>>query plan so that I can look at it in Query Analyzer's fine query plan
>>renderer?
>>Thanks!
>>Ion
>>
>> 
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