Joey on SQL Server Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 2: PSP Optimization Reduce workload times with this handy feature that can benefit every database pro.

Figure 1. Execution plan of a server query. As you can see in the above execution plan, SQL Server has highlighted a missing index that it thinks would help our query improve.

In earlier versions of SQL Server, after selecting a join algorithm, SQL Server had to process it even if a better alternative might be available. In SQL Server 2017, the query optimizer can now sense ...

In fact, SQL Server tries to plan only queries that aren't in stored procedures if they're (a) worth planning and (b) are running for the first time. Over time, as plans build up in the cache, only a ...