New Performance Improvement Features in SQL Server 2022

SQL Server 2022 shipped with more performance work under the hood than most teams have actually explored. Intelligent Query Processing gets extended in this release, and adaptive query processing techniques mature past what earlier versions offered. That's the real substance of this session, not a feature tour.

Deepthi Goguri, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with years of hands-on DBA experience, walks through what's changed and why it matters for query performance specifically. The session sticks close to what these improvements do in practice: fewer manual tuning interventions, queries that adapt better to changing data patterns, and overall database efficiency that doesn't rely on a DBA catching every edge case manually.

Security and scalability come up too, but performance is where the session spends most of its time.

• What's new in Intelligent Query Processing for SQL Server 2022
• How adaptive query processing techniques respond to changing workloads automatically
• Where these features reduce the need for manual query tuning
• What overall database efficiency gains look like once these features are actually in use

A lot of these improvements run quietly in the background. Knowing they exist, and how to take advantage of them, is most of the value here.

• What's new in Intelligent Query Processing with SQL Server 2022
• How adaptive query processing techniques improve performance automatically
• Practical ways these features reduce manual query tuning work
• How to apply these improvements to boost overall database efficiency

SQL Server 2022's performance improvements work quietly in the background, but only for teams who know they're there and how to use them.