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Summary of Changes

Hello @qw4990, I'm Gemini Code Assist1! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

This pull request introduces new documentation for the EXPLAIN EXPLORE statement, a feature available from TiDB v9.0.0. The added content aims to guide users on how to leverage this powerful SQL statement to discover and evaluate alternative execution plans for their queries, ultimately enabling them to optimize query performance by binding preferred plans.

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  • New Documentation Section: A comprehensive new section titled 'Explain Explore' has been added to the sql-plan-management.md file, detailing the usage and functionality of the EXPLAIN EXPLORE statement in TiDB.
  • EXPLAIN EXPLORE Statement Explained: The documentation clarifies the syntax EXPLAIN EXPLORE [ANALYZE] Stmt; and explains its purpose: to allow users to explore various potential execution plans for a given SQL query.
  • Practical Examples and Plan Binding: Detailed examples are provided, demonstrating how EXPLAIN EXPLORE ANALYZE returns multiple execution plans along with their performance metrics (e.g., avg_latency, avg_scan_rows). It also illustrates how users can then select an optimal plan and bind it using CREATE GLOBAL BINDING FROM HISTORY USING PLAN DIGEST.
  • Behavior Without ANALYZE: The documentation explicitly states that omitting the ANALYZE keyword will prevent the actual execution of the explored plans, resulting in zero execution data for the returned plans.
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This pull request adds documentation for the EXPLAIN EXPLORE statement. The new section provides a good overview and examples. My review includes several suggestions to improve clarity, conciseness, and consistency with the documentation style guide. I've also pointed out a minor formatting issue in one of the examples.

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@Oreoxmt Oreoxmt added v9.0-beta.2 This PR/issue applies to TiDB v9.0-beta.2. translation/doing This PR's assignee is translating this PR. labels Jul 18, 2025
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@Oreoxmt Oreoxmt self-requested a review July 18, 2025 09:40
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@qw4990 qw4990#2 PTAL

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explain explore analyze select sum(b) from t where a=1\G
Query OK, 50000 rows affected (0.738 sec)

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explain explore analyze select sum(b) from t where a=1\G
Query OK, 50000 rows affected (0.738 sec)

@@ -18,6 +20,8 @@ TiDB supports the `EXPLAIN [options] FOR CONNECTION connection_id` statement. Ho

## Synopsis

<!-- TODO: update the synopsis to include `EXPLAIN EXPLORE` -->
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@qw4990 Please update the synopsis

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