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BUG: Showplan Does Not Show Information About Worktables

Article ID: 156859

Article Last Modified on 10/16/2003

Microsoft SQL Server 6.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q156859

BUG #: 15555 (Windows NT: 6.0)
       15628 (6.5)

SYMPTOMS

If a table has a foreign key constraint that references another column in the same table (a self-reference), information about worktables are not printed in the showplan output of queries involving that table.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft SQL Server versions 6.0 and 6.5. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: fk

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