January 10, 2024

MS SQL Query Store usage scenarios

 The Query Store feature provides you with insight on query plan choice and performance for SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure Synapse Analytics. The Query Store simplifies performance troubleshooting by helping you quickly find performance differences caused by query plan changes. Query Store automatically captures a history of queries, plans, and runtime statistics, and retains these for your review. It separates data by time windows so you can see database usage patterns and understand when query plan changes happened on the server. 


Query Store can be used in wide set of scenarios when tracking and ensuring predictable workload performance is critical. Here are some examples you can consider:


  • Quickly find and fix a plan performance regression by forcing the previous query plan. Fix queries that have recently regressed in performance due to execution plan changes.

  • Determine the number of times a query was executed in a given time window, assisting a DBA in troubleshooting performance resource problems.

  • Identify top n queries (by execution time, memory consumption, etc.) in the past x hours.

  • Audit the history of query plans for a given query.

  • Analyze the resource (CPU, I/O, and Memory) usage patterns for a particular database.

  • Identify top n queries that are waiting on resources.

  • Understand wait nature for a particular query or plan.

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