The Query Store is designed to help DBAs understand which query plans are being used for different queries and how they perform. It's a quick way to find plan regressions or changes and pin a particular plan for a query.

Here are a list of links that might help you learn more. Note that many of these are links to other sites and we cannot guarantee they still work. We also should note that some of these, especially Books Online, may change over time.

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• Books Online - The Query Store
• Query Store: A flight data recorder for your database
• What is the SQL Server 2016 Query Data Store? 
• SQL Server Query Store
• The SQL Server Query Store

• SQL Server 2016: Identify Regressions with Query Store

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