In SQL Server 2016, Microsoft also added the query store, which helps track query performance and execution plans over time. While the query store is a fantastic tool for monitoring query ...

The Query Store feature first became available in SQL Server 2016 and provides the ability for database administrators (DBAs) to gain insights on query plan choice and the impact these choices have on ...

Prior to SQL Server 2017, query processing was a monolithic process. The SQL Server query optimizer would first construct a query plan for a batch of T-SQL code, a stored procedure, or function and ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server ... parameter sensitive plans. The process of query optimization is very computationally expensive. For this reason, SQL Server stores execution plans in a cache ...