# Execution Plan View Options Preferences

Set execution plan view options to specify defaults for viewing query plans.

Table 1. Execution plan view options
Property | Description
--- | ---
SQL Execution Plan View Orientation | Select Vertical Orientation to display the plan from top to bottom. Select Horizontal Orientation (default) to display the plan from left to right.

Export Encoding

Specify the output encoding. The default is Cp1252.

- Cp1252
- ISO-8859-1
- US-ASCII
- UTF-16
- UTF-16BE
- UTF-16LE
- UTF-8

Parent topic: Setting SQL Development Preferences
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