SQL Server 2017 can automatically tune your queries by identifying and fixing SQL plan change regressions. SQL Server tracks last known good plans for each query, and if the plan for the query changes, last know good plan will be used if performance of the new plan is worse than the performance of the last… Read more
Today we are announcing the official public preview of compatibility level 140 in Azure SQL Database. Compatibility level 140 enables the following query optimizer changes: A trivial plan referencing Columnstore indexes will be discarded in favor of a plan that is eligible for batch mode execution. The sp_execute_external_script UDX operator is eligible for batch mode… Read more
Troubleshooting waits previously. Nobody likes to wait. SQL database is multithreaded system that can handle thousands of queries executed simultaneously. Since queries that are executed in parallel compete for the same resources (tables, memory, etc) they might need to wait for the resources to be available to proceed with execution. These cumulative waits can be… Read more
Azure SQL Database is a Database as a Platform service designed for applications that will use database as self-contained service. Databases can be grouped together to simplify management options or share the resources. There are different options that can be used to bound databases in the groups, which will be explained in this post…. Read more
Plan regression happens when SQL Server starts using the sub-optimal SQL plan to execute some T-SQL query. Usually you will see that some T-SQL query is executing really fast, but then it gets slower without any obvious reason. In this post you will see how can plan regression happen…. Read more
OPENJSON function has a WITH clause where you can specify what fields should be extracted from input JSON. This might improve performance of your queries compared to the case where you use OPENJSON without schema and later extract information from the parsed JSON using JSON_VALUE function…. Read more
Automatic plan correction is a new automatic tuning feature in SQL Server 2017 that identifies SQL query plans that are worse than previous one, and fix performance issues by applying previous good plan instead of the regressed one…. Read more
Azure SQL Database has a built-in intelligence mechanism that can automatically tune and improve performance of your queries by dynamically adapting the database schema to your workload. In Azure SQL Database, you don’t need to worry about the index analysis and design, because Azure SQL Database learns about your workload and ensures that your data… Read more
SQL plan regression is a case when a T-SQL query that executed fine becomes much slower or uses more resources because the underlying SQL plan changed. SQL Server 2017 would not allow that kind of regressions if you enable new automatic tuning feature on your database…. Read more
SQL Server 2017 in CTP2.0 version automatically identifies potential performance regressions in SQL queries, enables you to easily find potential issues, and gives you information what should you do to fix the issue…. Read more