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SQL Server Query Store is a feature that was introduced in SQL Server 2016 and later versions. It is a repository of historical query information that allows you to monitor, analyze, and tune the ...

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 ...

This repository contains a T-SQL script that identifies query performance regressions using SQL Server Query Store. It compares recent execution performance against a baseline window to detect ...

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 ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

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 ...