While the query store is a fantastic tool for monitoring query performance, it has also become the center of a number of features around automatic tuning in SQL Server (more on this below).

The free tool aggregates the Query Stores of all databases per instance into one single actionable interface. SQL Query Store is a new feature offered in SQL Server 2016 that allows DBAs to see which ...

SQL Server 2016 offers a new tool for performance tuning called Query Store. This holds metrics that let you quickly see when an execution plan change has negatively impacted the database.

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

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SQL Query Store is a new feature offered in SQL Server 2016 that allows DBAs to see which queries ran when, how often and with what performance results to optimize queries and query plan selection.