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Hi <br />
I have the SQL2008 managment studio client tools installed, when yo click on the XML it renders the plan for you in icon format? (SQL 2005 just spits out the XML at you)<br />
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is this what you want?
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Hi
I have the SQL2008 managment studio client tools installed, when yo click on the XML it renders the plan for you in icon format? (SQL 2005 just spits out the XML at you)

is this what you want?

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yes, I am using SQL 2005, and it just gives the XML code.Do you have to configure it differently in SQL 2005? (than 2008)
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yes, I am using SQL 2005, and it just gives the XML code.Do you have to configure it differently in SQL 2005? (than 2008)

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Oh, OK.<br />
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I searched and got <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6C3E9EF-BA29-4A43-8D69-A2BED18FE73C&displaylang=en" rel="ugc">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6C3E9EF-BA29-4A43-8D69-A2BED18FE73C&displaylang=en</a><br />
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but that seems for 2008 itself. Is there a separate sql2008 client side tools to manage sql2005 installation.
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Oh, OK.

I searched and got http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6C3E9EF-BA29-4A43-8D69-A2BED18FE73C&displaylang=en [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6C3E9EF-BA29-4A43-8D69-A2BED18FE73C&displaylang=en]

but that seems for 2008 itself. Is there a separate sql2008 client side tools to manage sql2005 installation.

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look here<br />
<a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlexpress/thread/ea708ab0-0253-4f95-8448-00bd31a22a65" rel="ugc nofollow">http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlexpress/thread/ea708ab0-0253-4f95-8448-00bd31a22a65</a><br />
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look here
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlexpress/thread/ea708ab0-0253-4f95-8448-00bd31a22a65 [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlexpress/thread/ea708ab0-0253-4f95-8448-00bd31a22a65]



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is the suggestion to put<br />
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=08E52AC2-1D62-45F6-9A4A-4B76A8564A2B&displaylang=en" rel="ugc">http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=08E52AC2-1D62-45F6-9A4A-4B76A8564A2B&displaylang=en</a><br />
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on SSMS 2005?
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is the suggestion to put
http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=08E52AC2-1D62-45F6-9A4A-4B76A8564A2B&displaylang=en [http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=08E52AC2-1D62-45F6-9A4A-4B76A8564A2B&displaylang=en]

on SSMS 2005?

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When I get the query plan from the above DMV, it is a link to the XML source code. How can I get the graphical plan instead when clicking on it from SSMS?<br />
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thanks
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When I get the query plan from the above DMV, it is a link to the XML source code. How can I get the graphical plan instead when clicking on it from SSMS?

thanks

sys.dm_exec_query_plan Query plan in GUI

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.