In March the CSS SQL Server Engineers started to blog about various new enhancements made to the SQL Server Engine in SQL Server 2016. Even though these performance enhancements don’t get as much attention as the big new features introduced in SQL Server 2016 (like Query Store), they can play a massive role in the […]

With the February release of the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Preview Microsoft introduced a nice new tool inside SSMS, the Plan Comparison Tool. Like the name suggests, the tool makes it possible for you to compare different plans inside SSMS, but it doesn’t stop there. Microsoft also managed to squeeze in some optimizations for […]