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).

Intelligent Query Processing SQL Server 2016 introduced a wonderful feature called the Query Store -- or, as I like to call it, the flight data recorder for SQL Server. This feature lets you have ...

This feature enables SQL Server to build better execution plans and potentially ... Second, Microsoft has added much-needed improvements to Query Store. For example, Query Store is now enabled for all ...

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.

When running SQL Server Analysis Services, EE-only features include Star join query optimizations, Global batch aggregation, parallel query processing on partitions, Scalable read-only configurations, ...

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OK, so begin by opening the SQL Server tool. From there, choose the database where you want to create a stored procedure. Once it is up and running, you should click on the New Query button as ...

However, even without a JSON datatype, SQL Server 2016 still lets you query data stored in JSON format. I’ll look at that support in a later column (among other features, it provides a way to ...

when large numbers of events are in store, might be unsustainable. With the native JSON features in SQL Server 2016, the landscape changes and using SQL Server in an Event Sourcing scenario becomes ...

3. Columnstore Indexes-- This a cool new feature that is completely unique to SQL Server. They are special type of read-only index designed to be use with Data Warehouse queries. Basically, data is ...