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For today, another article about Query Store. When SQL Server 2025 was released, there was not a lot of noise about Query Store when compared to the other changes, even though it has some good changes ...

Query Store – Enhancing SQL Server Performance The Query Store feature in recent SQL Server versions has revolutionized performance tuning. Acting as a "black box recorder" for queries, it stores ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

The Query Store object provides counters to monitor resource utilization of [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] to store query texts, execution plans, and runtime stats for objects such as stored procedures, ad ...

🐙 Part of the Advanced SQL Server Toolkit A collection of professional-grade utilities for SQL Server database management and analysis. A comprehensive Python-based toolkit for analyzing SQL Server ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...