{"id":18085,"date":"2017-01-10T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/dataplatforminsider\/?p=18085"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:50:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:50:39","slug":"announcing-columnstore-indexes-and-query-store-support-in-database-engine-tuning-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2017\/01\/10\/announcing-columnstore-indexes-and-query-store-support-in-database-engine-tuning-advisor\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Columnstore Indexes and Query Store support in Database Engine Tuning Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest version of Microsoft\u00a0SQL Server <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/hh231122.aspx\">Database Engine Tuning Advisor<\/a> (<strong>DTA<\/strong>) supports two new features: <em>(a)<\/em> Ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/mt805316.aspx\">recommend columnstore indexes<\/a> in addition to rowstore indexes, and <em>(b)<\/em> Ability to automatically <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/mt805317.aspx\">select a workload to tune from the Query Store<\/a>. These new features are available when tuning for SQL Server 2016 Database Engine (or later) versions.\n<\/p>\n<h4>Recommendations for columnstore indexes<\/h4>\n<p>Data warehousing and analytic workloads often need to scan large amounts of data, and can greatly benefit from <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/gg492088.aspx\">columnstore indexes<\/a>. In contrast, rowstore<span> (B+-tree) indexes are most effective for queries that access relatively small amounts of data searching for a particular range of values. Since rowstore indexes can deliver rows in sorted order, they can also reduce the cost of sorting in query execution plans<\/span>. Therefore, the choice of which rowstore and columnstore indexes to build for your database is dependent on your application\u2019s workload.<\/p>\n<p>The latest version of DTA can analyze the workload and recommend a suitable <strong>combination of rowstore and columnstore indexes<\/strong> to build on the tables referenced by the workload.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/mt805801.aspx\">This article<\/a> highlights the performance improvements achieved on real customer workloads by using DTA to recommend a combination of rowstore and columnstore indexes.<\/p>\n<h4>Tune Database using Workload from SQL Server Query Store<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-US\/library\/dn817826.aspx\">Query Store<\/a> feature in SQL Server automatically captures a history of queries, plans, and runtime statistics, and persists this information along with a database. It stores query execution statistics summarized over time intervals so you can see database usage patterns and understand when query plan changes happened on the server. DTA now supports a new option to analyze the Query Store to automatically select an appropriate workload for tuning. For many DTA users, this can take away the burden of having to collect a suitable workload file using SQL Server Profiler. This feature is only available if the database has Query Store turned on.<\/p>\n<h4>Next Steps<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/mt238290.aspx\">Download the latest version of Database Engine Tuning Advisor<\/a><br \/>\nFor additional documentation on these features see also:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/mt805316.aspx\">Columnstore Index Recommendations in Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/mt805317.aspx\">Tuning Database Using Workload from Query Store<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/mt805801.aspx\">Performance Improvements using Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) recommendations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest version of Microsoft\u00a0SQL Server Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) supports two new features: (a) Ability to recommend columnstore indexes in addition to rowstore indexes, and (b) Ability to automatically select a workload to tune from the Query Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","footnotes":""},"post_tag":[],"product":[5227,2403],"content-type":[2448],"topic":[2469],"coauthors":[2487],"class_list":["post-18085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","product-sql","product-sql-server-2016","content-type-updates","topic-high-performance-database"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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