Feature Request
Add right-click schema lookup (Show Indexes, Show Table Definition, Show Object Definition) to plan viewer operator nodes. This is the plan viewer half of #1.
Prerequisites
Connection toolbar on plan viewer tabs — plans loaded from file have no server connection. The plan viewer needs a Connect button + connection status + database dropdown, consistent with the query editor toolbar. Plans loaded from query execution or Query Store should inherit the session's connection. Plans loaded from file require manual connection.
Which operators support lookup
Only operators that reference data objects should offer schema lookup. Specifically:
Table/index access operators (Show Indexes, Show Table Definition):
- Clustered Index Scan / Seek
- Nonclustered Index Scan / Seek
- Table Scan (heap)
- Columnstore Index Scan
- Key Lookup / RID Lookup
- Index Insert / Update / Delete
- Table Insert / Update / Delete
Object reference operators (Show Object Definition):
- Table-valued Function
- UDF (scalar function references in Compute Scalar)
- Remote Query (if referencing a known object)
Operators that should NOT offer lookup:
- Sort, Hash Match, Nested Loops, Merge Join, Filter, Parallelism, etc. — these are execution operators, not data access
- Constant Scan, Sequence, Concatenation, etc.
- Compute Scalar (unless it contains a UDF reference)
The object name and index name are available in the plan XML operator attributes (Table, Index, Object).
Temporary objects
Tables like #temp, ##global_temp, @table_variables, and tempdb worktables referenced in spools will appear in plan operators but cannot be looked up:
#temp tables exist only in the session that created them — they won't exist when analyzing a saved plan
@table_variables are not in sys.indexes / sys.columns
- Spool worktables are internal to the engine
Behavior: When the referenced object starts with #, @, or is a known internal object (e.g., worktable, worksort), hide the schema lookup menu items — same as we hide them when clicking a keyword in the editor. No error, just not offered.
Display
Same as the query editor implementation: open a new tab with the DDL output (CREATE TABLE / CREATE INDEX / object definition) with SQL syntax highlighting and a close button.
Depends on
Scoped from #1
Feature Request
Add right-click schema lookup (Show Indexes, Show Table Definition, Show Object Definition) to plan viewer operator nodes. This is the plan viewer half of #1.
Prerequisites
Connection toolbar on plan viewer tabs — plans loaded from file have no server connection. The plan viewer needs a Connect button + connection status + database dropdown, consistent with the query editor toolbar. Plans loaded from query execution or Query Store should inherit the session's connection. Plans loaded from file require manual connection.
Which operators support lookup
Only operators that reference data objects should offer schema lookup. Specifically:
Table/index access operators (Show Indexes, Show Table Definition):
Object reference operators (Show Object Definition):
Operators that should NOT offer lookup:
The object name and index name are available in the plan XML operator attributes (
Table,Index,Object).Temporary objects
Tables like
#temp,##global_temp,@table_variables, and tempdb worktables referenced in spools will appear in plan operators but cannot be looked up:#temptables exist only in the session that created them — they won't exist when analyzing a saved plan@table_variablesare not insys.indexes/sys.columnsBehavior: When the referenced object starts with
#,@, or is a known internal object (e.g., worktable, worksort), hide the schema lookup menu items — same as we hide them when clicking a keyword in the editor. No error, just not offered.Display
Same as the query editor implementation: open a new tab with the DDL output (CREATE TABLE / CREATE INDEX / object definition) with SQL syntax highlighting and a close button.
Depends on
Scoped from #1