Graphical Execution Plan Icons (SQL Server Management Studio)

SQL Server 2008 Books Online (October 2009)

The following icons displayed in the SQL Server Management Studio graphical execution plan represent operators used by SQL Server to execute statements. For more information, see Logical and Physical Operators Reference.

Operators that are executed in parallel are displayed with the following parallel process icon above the operator.

Icon	Operator
	Arithmetic Expression
	Assert
	Bitmap
	Bookmark Lookup
	Clustered Index Delete
	Clustered Index Insert
	Clustered Index Scan
	Clustered Index Seek
	Clustered Index Update
	Collapse
	Compute Scalar
	Concatenation
	Constant Scan
	Delete
	Deleted Scan
	Eager Spool
	Filter
	Hash Match
	Hash Match Root
	Hash Match Team
	Insert
	Inserted Scan
	Iterator Catchall
	Lazy Spool
	Log Row Scan
	Merge Interval
	Merge Join
	Nested Loops
	Nonclustered Index Delete
	Nonclustered Index Insert
	Nonclustered Index Scan
	Nonclustered Index Seek
	Nonclustered Index Spool
	Nonclustered Index Update
	Online Index Insert
	Parameter Table Scan
	Remote Delete
	Remote Insert
	Remote Query
	Remote Scan
	Remote Update
	RID Lookup
	Row Count Spool
	Segment
	Sequence
	SequenceProject
	Sort
	Split
	Spool
	Stream Aggregate
	Switch
	Table Delete
	Table Insert
	Table Scan
	Table Spool
	Table Update
	Table-valued Function
	Top
	UDX
	Update

The following icons displayed in the graphical execution plan represent the Cursor Logical and Physical Showplan Operators used by SQL Server to execute statements.

Icon	Cursor physical operator
	Cursor Catchall
	Dynamic
	Fetch Query
	Keyset
	Population Query
	Refresh Query
	Snapshot

The following icons displayed in the graphical execution plan represent the Parallelism Showplan Operator physical operators used by SQL Server to execute statements.