View information and help for icons

You can view information related to each operation of a query from the query graph in the left pane.

To view information on an operation in the query, click the icon in the query graph. The information is displayed in the right pane of the Visual Explain window.

If an icon has a blue cross Blue cross icon next to it, you can right click the icon and select Expand or Expand to window to view a subgraph of the query operation.

You can view summary information about a particular operation by resting the mouse cursor on the icon. To view help for an icon, right-click the icon in the query graph and select Help.