Randy Dyess of Solid Quality Mentors had a session and since I'd just gotten a copy of Grant Fritchey's book with the same name, I wanted to check it out. There are 3 types of plans: graphical, text, and XML. Graphical is cool, looks good, but...
Andrew Kelley, SQL Server MVP, is a good speaker, so I'd recommend his sessions if you want good technical information. IO Stats are a snapshot in time since the instance was restarted, so you must have at least two reads to compare the data. Stats...