So if you configure automatic tuning on the server level, all new databases will inherit these settings upon creation. 2) You can use T-SQL, that you can run on the database to configure automatic tuning. Following T-SQL will configure automatic tuning on a database level: ALTER DATABASE current SET AUTOMATICTUNING = AUTO INHERIT CUSTOM.
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This is a repro package to demonstrate the Automatic Tuning (Auto Plan Correction) in SQL Server 2017. This feature is using telemtry from the Query Store feature we launched with Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 to provide built-in intelligence.
This repro assumes the following:
- Enable automatic tuning on an individual database Azure portal. To enable automatic tuning on a single database. Find out more about using REST API to enable Automatic tuning on a single database. Setting automatic tuning to AUTO will apply Azure Defaults.
- Enable automatic tuning to monitor queries and improve workload performance.; 5 minutes to read; In this article. Azure SQL Database is an automatically managed data service that constantly monitors your queries and identifies the action that you can perform to improve performance of your workload.
- SQL Server 2017 installed (pick at minimum Database Engine) on Windows. This feature requires Developer or Enterprise Edition.
- You have installed SQL Server Management Studio or SQL Operations Studio (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-operations-studio/download)
- You have downloaded the RML Utilities from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4511.
- These demos use a named instance called SQL2017. You will need to edit the .cmd scripts which connect to SQL Server to change to a default instance or whatever named instance you have installed.
- Install ostress from the package RML_Setup_AMD64.msi. Add C:Program FilesMicrosoft CorporationRMLUtils to your path.
- Restore the WideWorldImporters database backup to your SQL Server 2017 instance. The WideWorldImporters-Full.bak is provided along with a restorewwi.sql script to restore the database. This script assumes the backup is in the C:C:sql_sample_databases directory and that all database files will be placed in c:temp. Change the location for the backup and your files as needed.
- Run repro_setup.cmd to customize the WideWorldImporters database for the demo. You will only need to run this one time after restoring the backup.
- Setup Performance Monitor on Windows to track SQL Statistics/Batch Requests/sec
- Run initalize.cmd to setup the repro for default of recommendations. If you restart the demo from the beginning, you can run this again to 'reset' the demo.
- Run report.cmd to start the workload. This will pop-up a command window running the workload. Note the chart showing Batch Requests/Sec as your workload throughput
- Run regression.cmd (you may need to run this a few times for timing reasons). Notice the drop in batch requests/sec which shows a performance regression in your workload.
- Load recommendations.sql into SQL Server Management Studio or SQL Operations Studio and review the results. Notice the time difference under the reason column and value of state_transition_reason which should be AutomaticTuningOptionNotEnabled. This means we found a regression but are recommending it only, not automatically fixing it. The script column shows a query that could be used to fix the problem.
- Stop the report.cmd workload by pressing + in the command window and pressing 'y' to stop. This should close that command window.
- Now let's see what happens with automatic plan correction which uses this command in SQL Server 2017
ALTER DATABASE SET AUTOMATIC_TUNING ( FORCE_LAST_GOOD_PLAN = ON )
- Run auto_tune.cmd which uses the above command to set automatic plan correct ON for WideWorldImporters
- Repeat steps 6-8 as above. In Performance Monitor you will see the batch requests/sec dip but within a second go right back up. This is because SQL Server detected the regression and automatically reverted to 'last known good' or the last known good query plan as found in the Query Store. Note in the output of recommendations.sql the state_transition_reason now says LastGoodPlanForced.
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Azure SQL Database automatic tuning provides peak performance and stable workloads through continuous performance tuning based on AI and machine learning.
Automatic tuning is a fully managed intelligent performance service that uses built-in intelligence to continuously monitor queries executed on a database, and it automatically improves their performance. This is achieved through dynamically adapting database to the changing workloads and applying tuning recommendations. Automatic tuning learns horizontally from all databases on Azure through AI and it dynamically improves its tuning actions. The longer a database runs with automatic tuning on, the better it performs.
Azure SQL Database automatic tuning might be one of the most important features that you can enable to provide stable and peak performing database workloads.
What can automatic tuning do for you
- Automated performance tuning of Azure SQL databases
- Automated verification of performance gains
- Automated rollback and self-correction
- Tuning history
- Tuning action T-SQL scripts for manual deployments
- Proactive workload performance monitoring
- Scale out capability on hundreds of thousands of databases
- Positive impact to DevOps resources and the total cost of ownership
Safe, Reliable, and Proven
Tuning operations applied to databases in Azure SQL Database are fully safe for the performance of your most intense workloads. The system has been designed with care not to interfere with the user workloads. Automated tuning recommendations are applied only at the times of a low utilization. The system can also temporarily disable automatic tuning operations to protect the workload performance. In such case, 'Disabled by the system' message will be shown in Azure portal. Automatic tuning regards workloads with the highest resource priority.
Automatic tuning mechanisms are mature and have been perfected on several million databases running on Azure. Automated tuning operations applied are verified automatically to ensure there is a positive improvement to the workload performance. Regressed performance recommendations are dynamically detected and promptly reverted. Through the tuning history recorded, there exists a clear trace of tuning improvements made to each Azure SQL Database.
Azure SQL Database automatic tuning is sharing its core logic with the SQL Server automatic tuning engine. For additional technical information on the built-in intelligence mechanism, see SQL Server automatic tuning.
For an overview of how automatic tuning works and for typical usage scenarios, see the embedded video:
[!VIDEO https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/Improve-Azure-SQL-Database-Performance-with-automatic-tuning/player]
Enable automatic tuning
You can enable automatic tuning for single and pooled databases in the Azure portal or using the ALTER DATABASE T-SQL statement. You enable automatic tuning for instance databases in a managed instance deployment using the ALTER DATABASE T-SQL statement.
Automatic tuning options
Automatic tuning options available in Azure SQL Database are:
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Automatic tuning option | Single database and pooled database support | Instance database support |
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CREATE INDEX - Identifies indexes that may improve performance of your workload, creates indexes, and automatically verifies that performance of queries has improved. | Yes | No |
DROP INDEX - Identifies redundant and duplicate indexes daily, except for unique indexes, and indexes that were not used for a long time (>90 days). Please note that this option is not compatible with applications using partition switching and index hints. Dropping unused indexes is not supported for Premium and Business Critical service tiers. | Yes | No |
FORCE LAST GOOD PLAN (automatic plan correction) - Identifies SQL queries using execution plan that is slower than the previous good plan, and queries using the last known good plan instead of the regressed plan. | Yes | Yes |
Automatic tuning for single and pooled databases
Automatic tuning for single and pooled databases uses the CREATE INDEX, DROP INDEX, and FORCE LAST GOOD PLAN database advisor recommendations to optimize your database performance. For more information, see Database advisor recommendations in the Azure portal, in PowerShell, and in the REST API.
You can either manually apply tuning recommendations using the Azure portal or you can let automatic tuning autonomously apply tuning recommendations for you. The benefits of letting the system autonomously apply tuning recommendations for you is that it automatically validates there exists a positive gain to the workload performance, and if there is no significant performance improvement detected, it will automatically revert the tuning recommendation. Please note that in case of queries affected by tuning recommendations that are not executed frequently, the validation phase can take up to 72 hrs by design.
In case you are applying tuning recommendations through T-SQL, the automatic performance validation, and reversal mechanisms are not available. Recommendations applied in such way will remain active and shown in the list of tuning recommendations for 24-48 hrs. before the system automatically withdraws them. If you would like to remove a recommendation sooner, you can discard it from Azure portal.
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Automatic tuning options can be independently enabled or disabled per database, or they can be configured on SQL Database servers and applied on every database that inherits settings from the server. SQL Database servers can inherit Azure defaults for automatic tuning settings. Azure defaults at this time are set to FORCE_LAST_GOOD_PLAN is enabled, CREATE_INDEX is enabled, and DROP_INDEX is disabled.
[!IMPORTANT]As of March, 2020 changes to Azure defaults for automatic tuning will take effect as follows:
- New Azure defaults will be FORCE_LAST_GOOD_PLAN = enabled, CREATE_INDEX = disabled, and DROP_INDEX = disabled.
- Existing servers with no automatic tuning preferences configured will be automatically configured to INHERIT the new Azure defaults. This applies to all customers currently having server settings for automatic tuning in an undefined state.
- New servers created will automatically be configured to INHERIT the new Azure defaults (unlike earlier when automatic tuning configuration was in an undefined state upon new server creation).
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Configuring automatic tuning options on a server and inheriting settings for databases belonging to the parent server is a recommended method for configuring automatic tuning as it simplifies management of automatic tuning options for a large number of databases.
Azure Sql Database Auto Tuning
To learn about building email notifications for automatic tuning recommendations, see Email notifications for automatic tuning.
Automatic tuning for instance databases
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Automatic tuning for instance databases in a managed instance deployment only supports FORCE LAST GOOD PLAN. For more information about configuring automatic tuning options through T-SQL, see Automatic tuning introduces automatic plan correction and Automatic plan correction.
Next steps
- To learn about built-in intelligence used in automatic tuning, see Artificial Intelligence tunes Azure SQL databases.
- To learn how automatic tuning works under the hood, see Automatically indexing millions of databases in Microsoft Azure SQL Database.