Plan Caching in SQL Server v1

Kendra Little | March 4, 2024

I drew out a first visualization of how the shared plan cache in SQL Server is used when you run a query. I’m pretty sure I’ll refine and and elaborate on this in the future, so let’s call this the v1.

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