[Video] I Must Be an Idiot: Automatic Tuning Never Works for Me.


I don’t get it. I’ve given this feature one chance after another, and every time, it takes a smoke break rather than showing up for work.

The latest instance involved the recent Query Exercise where you were challenged to fix a computed column’s performance. In the comments, some folks noted that performance of the query was actually great on old compat levels, like SQL Server 2008, and that it only sucked on newer compat levels like 2016 and later.

That would be the perfect use case for Automatic Tuning, I thought to myself! I’ve said this so many times over