Explore the intricacies of SQL Server execution plans in this comprehensive conference talk from PASS Data Community Summit. Delve into the reasons behind query performance issues and learn how to interpret execution plans to optimize your database queries. Discover techniques for capturing and analyzing execution plans, understanding object access patterns, and identifying basic operations within plans. Through numerous demonstrations, gain practical insights into recognizing potential problems and extracting valuable information from execution plans. Master the skills to effectively troubleshoot and improve query performance, enabling you to tackle slow-running queries with confidence. Leave equipped with immediately applicable knowledge to analyze and optimize SQL queries back at your workstation.