Question

When you perform a SELECT over a large table in SQL Management Studio by default, the result is displayed in a Grid table. As we can imagine, when the result set is million lines long, the data will be fed to that table widget that is displayed in SQL Management Studio.

• Will that have an impact on the execution duration of the query ?
• If so, is it possible to disable the displaying of the results of the query, to get a more realistic execution time of that query ?

UPDATE :

When I say display, I don’t mean “Display … Execution Plan” but the display of the data on the screen

Answer 1

there are 3 ways to display resultset in management studio

• results to text
• results to grid
• results to file

you can choose option 1 and chk execution time and compare it with option 2 execution time.