Nov 22, 2024 · Query Store provides insight on query plan choice and performance for SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure Synapse Analytics. Query Store captures history of queries, plans, and runtime statistics.

Jul 20, 2010 · Hi Roni, to clarify, are you looking to monitor the progress of a query that is performing a backup / restore? Or a query in general? What you want are Live Query Statistics. You can activate it in the most recent version of SSMS with a button next to the one that gives you the normal query plan: This then gives you a live query plan:

Mar 10, 2025 · Displays real-time statistics about query execution steps. Because this data is available while the query is executing, these execution statistics are extremely useful for debugging query performance issues.

Nov 22, 2024 · To monitor performance in Fabric SQL database, use the Performance dashboard. You can use Query Store in all databases without concerns, in even densely packed Azure SQL Database elastic pools.

Nov 1, 2021 · In this article, we will explore how we can use SQL Server extended events to monitor query performance in SQL Server. Monitoring the query performance is one of the important diagnosis methods to uncover poorly performing queries. However, sometimes this can be a bit of struggling activity.

Sep 16, 2014 · This article shows how to monitor SQL Server query execution cost using Activity Monitor and Data Collection in SQL Server Management Studio

Sep 9, 2014 · We have three methods to capture the actual SQL Server Execution Plan: Setting either SET STATISTICS PROFILE or SET STATISTICS XML to ON into the Query being analyzed. Create a server side trace including one of these two events: “Showplan Statistics Profile” or “Showplan Statistics XML”.

Feb 14, 2014 · SQL Server Activity Monitor is a feature in SQL Server Management Studio that displays information about the SQL Server processes and their effect on SQL Server performance. Activity Monitor consists of several panes – Overview, Processes, Resource Waits, Data File I/O, and Recent Expensive Queries. Panes can be expanded and collapsed.

Oct 30, 2024 · Looking at the timestamp, you can see the history of the query with different execution plans, giving you the performance history of the query. A common reason for this is a parameter sniffing issue, described in Analyzing SQL Server Performance Impact of …

Apr 1, 2025 · The SQL Server Query Store doesn’t auto-grow and once the SQL Server Query Store reaches the maximum size, the Operation Mode will be switched to the Read Only mode, automatically, and new query ...