1. Design Seamless Upgrades to SQL Server 2016 with Query Store
Microsoft 2016
8/26/2018 8:46 AM
THR3026
Design Seamless Upgrades to SQL Server 2016 with Query Store
Joey D’Antoni
Principal Consultant
Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting
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Joey D’Antoni
@jdanton

3. Agenda SQL Server 2016 is awesome! Upgrades can be scary
Use the Query Store to protect your performance

4. SQL Server 2016 R Services Columnstore TempDB Query Data Store
Always On Availability Groups
Data Insights
Columnstore
PolyBase
Stretch Database
In-Memory Analytics
R Services
PolyBase
Temporal Tables
Query Data Store
JSON Support
TempDB
Always Encrypted
Modern BI Platform
Row Level Security

5. Don’t Wait For Service Pack 1
This was a common refrain in the past
Microsoft is not the same company it was
Development happens FAST

6. What are the Risks? SQL Server vNew is buggy
SQL Server Cumulative Updates are not tested
No one has used this code in production
Queries suddenly get slow
Database optimizer changes between versions
This to help most plans run better
It works—most of the time

7. Query Store Flight data recorder for SQL Server
Identify largest queries
Identify regressed queries

8. Upgrade Process Upgrade to SQL Server 2016
Maintain compatibility level
Gather query store data
Upgrade to compatibility level 130
Identify regressed queries

9. Query Store

10. Benefits of Compatibility Level 130
The Insert in an Insert-select statement is multi-threaded or can have a parallel plan.
Queries on a memory-optimized table can now have parallel plans.
Improvements in Cardinality Estimations
Big improvements for columnstore indexes
Statistics improvements

11. Summary SQL Server 2016 is awesome!
Query Store makes upgrades much easier
Compatibility Level 130 has big improvements—get there

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