How to Search and Destroy Non-SARGable Queries on Your Server - Data with Bert

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-- From https://github.com/bertwagner/SQLServer/blob/master/Non-SARGable%20Execution%20Plans.sql
-- This script will check the execution plan cache for any queries that are non-SARGable.
-- It does this by finding table and index scans that contain a scalar operators

SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
 
DECLARE @dbname SYSNAME
SET @dbname = QUOTENAME(DB_NAME());
 
WITH XMLNAMESPACES (DEFAULT 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2004/07/showplan')

SELECT
   stmt.value('(@StatementText)[1]', 'varchar(max)') AS [Query],
   query_plan AS [QueryPlan],
   sc.value('(.//Identifier/ColumnReference/@Schema)[1]', 'varchar(128)') AS [Schema], 
   sc.value('(.//Identifier/ColumnReference/@Table)[1]', 'varchar(128)') AS [Table], 
   sc.value('(.//Identifier/ColumnReference/@Column)[1]', 'varchar(128)') AS [Column] ,
   CASE WHEN s.exist('.//TableScan') = 1 THEN 'TableScan' ELSE 'IndexScan' END AS [ScanType],
   sc.value('(@ScalarString)[1]', 'varchar(128)') AS [ScalarString]
FROM 
	sys.dm_exec_cached_plans AS cp
	CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(cp.plan_handle) AS qp
	CROSS APPLY query_plan.nodes('/ShowPlanXML/BatchSequence/Batch/Statements/StmtSimple') AS batch(stmt)
	CROSS APPLY stmt.nodes('.//RelOp[TableScan or IndexScan]') AS scan(s)
	CROSS APPLY s.nodes('.//ScalarOperator') AS scalar(sc)
WHERE
    s.exist('.//ScalarOperator[@ScalarString]!=""') = 1 
    AND sc.exist('.//Identifier/ColumnReference[@Database=sql:variable("@dbname")][@Schema!="[sys]"]') = 1
	AND sc.value('(@ScalarString)[1]', 'varchar(128)') IS NOT NULL
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The script below looks at cached query plans and searches them for any table or index scans. Next, it looks for scalar operators, and if it finds any it means we have ourselves a non-SARGable query.

https://bertwagner.com/2017/08/22/how-to-search-and-destroy-non-sargable-queries-on-your-server/