---
title: "Query Analyzer Tricks"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/2/query-analyzer-tricks.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/2/query-analyzer-tricks.html"
published: "2004-01-02T08:40:00"
updated: "2004-01-02T08:40:00"
tags: ["Cool Articles", "Tips & Tricks"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here are some small cool tips from SQLServerCentral : Query Analyzer Tricks (note: you need to register on the site, but registration is free)"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Query Analyzer Tricks

By Roy Osherove January 2, 2004 In [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles), [Tips & Tricks](https://osherove.com/blog/category/tips-tricks)

**Historical article** · Originally published January 2, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Here are some small cool tips from [SQLServerCentral](http://www.sqlservercentral.com/):

[Query Analyzer Tricks](http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones/queryanalyzertricks.asp)

(note: you need to register on the site, but registration is free)

## More in Cool Articles

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- Jan 3, 2004

    ### [Some cool links](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/3/some-cool-links.html)

- Dec 31, 2003

    ### [Jan does cool stuff: nice article and cool extension to the winform data grid](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/31/jan-does-cool-stuff-nice-article-and-cool-extension-to-the-w.html)

- Dec 29, 2003

    ### [Another article of mine published on MSDN: Search Dynamically for Plug-Ins](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/29/another-article-of-mine-published-on-msdn-search-dynamically.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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