Access Plan Diagram view

This view contains features that display diagrams, help you to navigate through diagrams, and understand the nodes in diagrams.
Figure 1. Access Plan Diagram view
Viewer for diagrams of access plans

The Access Plan Diagram view has three sections.

  1. The first section contains buttons for the following actions:
    Table 1. Actions that you can take by clicking these buttons
    Action Button
    Open a saved diagram

    To open the Access Plan Diagram view so that you can open a saved diagram, select Window > Show View > Other. In the Show View window, select Data > Access Plan Diagram.

    Open saved diagram
    Save the diagram
    Note: On Linux, Visual Explain appends the extension .xml to the file name automatically.
    Save diagram
    View the SQL or XPATH statement
    View SQL or XPATH
    Zoom in
    Zoom in
    Zoom out
    Zoom out
    Scale the diagram to fit the Canvas
    Scale to fit
    Flip the diagram horizontally
    Flip horizontally
    Flip the diagram vertically
    Flip vertically
    Print the entire diagram or only a portion that you selected
    Print diagram
  2. The second section contains three panes:
    • The Overview of Diagram pane helps you to navigate through a diagram.
    • The Description of Selected Node pane lists the data elements and the associated predicates of the selected node.
    • The Search for Node pane lets you search for a node in a diagram.
  3. The third section contains the Canvas, which displays diagrams of access plans. These diagrams show the operations that data servers require to derive the results of SQL, XPATH, or XQUERY statements.

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