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Pedro Lopes
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Pedro Lopes

Pedro Lopes is a Program Manager in the Database Systems group, based in Redmond, WA, USA. He has over 19 years of industry experience and has been with Microsoft for 9 years. He is currently responsible for program management of Database Engine features for in-market and vNext versions of SQL Server, with a special focus on the Relational Engine. He has extensive experience with query performance troubleshooting and is a regular speaker at numerous conferences such as SQLBits, PASS Summit, SQLIntersection, Microsoft Ignite, and Microsoft Build. He blogs about SQL on the SQL Server Team blog. He has authored several tools in the Tiger toolbox on GitHub: AdaptiveIndexDefrag maintenance solution, BPCheck, and usp_WhatsUp.
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Pam Lahoud
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Pam Lahoud

Pam Lahoud is a Program Manager in the Database Systems group, based in Redmond, WA, USA. She has been with Microsoft for 13 years and is currently responsible for program management of Database Engine features for in-market and vNext versions of SQL Server, with a special focus on the Storage Engine area. She is passionate about SQL Server performance and has focused on performance tuning and optimization, particularly from the developer's perspective, throughout her career. She is a SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) with over 20 years of experience working with SQL Server.
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Introducing the Query Store

The requirement to track query performance statistics over time has been a longtime request by SQL Database Engine users because it unlocks the ability to go back in time and understand trends and point-in-time occurrences. Maybe a point-in-time issue with the database caused our company website to glitch, or a critical application slows down periodically without a predictable pattern, or we noticed that part of our workload is much slower after an upgrade to a new version of the SQL Database Engine. Barring any hardware problems, all these scenarios can usually be boiled down to one common cause – query plan optimization choices. This led to the creation of the Query Store – an effective flight recorder for our databases that’s available in SQL Server (starting with SQL Server 2016) and Azure SQL Database, including Managed Instance.

Recall what we discussed on the process of query optimization in Chapter 1, Understanding Query Processing...

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Pedro Lopes

Pedro Lopes is a Program Manager in the Database Systems group, based in Redmond, WA, USA. He has over 19 years of industry experience and has been with Microsoft for 9 years. He is currently responsible for program management of Database Engine features for in-market and vNext versions of SQL Server, with a special focus on the Relational Engine. He has extensive experience with query performance troubleshooting and is a regular speaker at numerous conferences such as SQLBits, PASS Summit, SQLIntersection, Microsoft Ignite, and Microsoft Build. He blogs about SQL on the SQL Server Team blog. He has authored several tools in the Tiger toolbox on GitHub: AdaptiveIndexDefrag maintenance solution, BPCheck, and usp_WhatsUp.
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Pam Lahoud

Pam Lahoud is a Program Manager in the Database Systems group, based in Redmond, WA, USA. She has been with Microsoft for 13 years and is currently responsible for program management of Database Engine features for in-market and vNext versions of SQL Server, with a special focus on the Storage Engine area. She is passionate about SQL Server performance and has focused on performance tuning and optimization, particularly from the developer's perspective, throughout her career. She is a SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) with over 20 years of experience working with SQL Server.
Read more about Pam Lahoud