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Automatic Plan Correction

Jovan Popovic introduces a new tuning feature in SQL Server 2017:

How to identify plans that should be corrected?

SQL Server 2017 provides a new system view called sys.dm_db_tuning_recommendations that shows all identified plan regressions. You can select data from this view, find the difference between last known good plan and regressed plan, and the script that you can execute to manually fix regression.

Automatic plan correction

As a next step, you can let SQL Server 2017 to automatically correct any plan that regressed.

I like it when the database engine gets smarter, but I get the feeling I’d like there to be some finer-grained options around what gets considered a regression and when a sub-optimal plan gets swapped out.