SQL Server Execution Plans - Red Gate Software

Figure 8.13
Chapter 8: Advanced Topics
If we change the value to 288, we see an Index Seek with a Bookmark Lookup.
Figure 8.14
This is much faster than the Clustered Index Scan. If the execution plan for the
procedure takes the first value for its plan, then the later values still use the Clustered
Index Scan. While we could simply add a plan guide that uses the OPTIMIZE FOR hint,
we're going to try USE PLAN instead.
First, we need to create an XML plan that behaves the way we want. We do this by taking
the SELECT criteria out of the stored procedure and modifying it to behave the correct
way. This results in the correct plan. In order to capture this plan, we'll wrap it with
STATISTICS XML, which will generate an actual execution plan in XML.
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