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SQL statement can be preceded by the keyword "EXPLAIN" or +by the phrase "EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN". Either modification causes the +SQL statement to behave as a query and to return information about +how the SQL statement would have operated if the EXPLAIN keyword or +phrase had been omitted.</p> + +<p>The output from EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN is intended for +interactive analysis and troubleshooting only. The details of the +output format are subject to change from one release of SQLite to the next. +Applications should not use EXPLAIN or EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN since +their exact behavior is variable and only partially documented.</p> + +<p>When the EXPLAIN keyword appears by itself it causes the statement +to behave as a query that returns the sequence of +<a href="opcode.html">virtual machine instructions</a> it would have used to execute the command had +the EXPLAIN keyword not been present. When the EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN phrase +appears, the statement returns high-level information regarding the query +plan that would have been used. + +</p><p>The EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN command is described in +<a href="eqp.html">more detail here</a>. + +</p><h2 id="explain_operates_at_run_time_not_at_prepare_time"><span>2.1. </span>EXPLAIN operates at run-time, not at prepare-time</h2> + +<p>The EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN prefixes affect the behavior of +running a <a href="c3ref/stmt.html">prepared statement</a> using <a href="c3ref/step.html">sqlite3_step()</a>. The process of +generating a new prepared statement using <a href="c3ref/prepare.html">sqlite3_prepare()</a> or similar +is (mostly) unaffected by EXPLAIN. (The exception to the previous sentence +is that some special opcodes used by EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN are omitted when +building an EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN prepared statement, as a performance +optimization.) + +</p><p>This means that actions that occur during sqlite3_prepare() are +unaffected by EXPLAIN. + +</p><ul> +<li><p> +Some <a href="pragma.html#syntax">PRAGMA</a> statements do their work during sqlite3_prepare() rather +than during sqlite3_step(). Those PRAGMA statements are unaffected +by EXPLAIN. They operate the same with or without the EXPLAIN prefix. +The set of PRAGMA statements that are unaffected by EXPLAIN can vary +from one release to the next. Some PRAGMA statements operate during +sqlite3_prepare() depending on their arguments. For consistent +results, avoid using EXPLAIN on PRAGMA statements. + +</p></li><li><p> +The <a href="c3ref/set_authorizer.html">authorizer callback</a> is invoked regardless of the presence of +EXPLAIN or EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN. +</p></li></ul> +<p align="center"><small><i>This page last modified on <a href="https://sqlite.org/docsrc/honeypot" id="mtimelink" data-href="https://sqlite.org/docsrc/finfo/pages/lang_explain.in?m=7122ecf5f6">2022-01-08 05:02:57</a> UTC </small></i></p> + |