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Dealing with Parameter Sniffing using Multiple Execution Plans

Andy Brownsword deals with statistical skew in the data:

Dynamic SQL has many uses and one of these can help us fix Parameter Sniffing issues. Here we’ll look at how it can be used to generate multiple execution plans for the same query.

Parameter sniffing is a common issue. Even for simple queries we can run into suboptimal plans being produced. There are multiple ways we can use Dynamic SQL to solve this challenge. Here we’ll demonstrate one technique: Comment Injection.

My one note about a good post (other than, you should read it) is that parameter sniffing is not itself a bad thing. 95%+ of the time, it’s a great thing. It’s that last 5% or so that give it a bad name.