Yes! Back to Query Store! I have had this problem for months where one of my Query store databases grows by a gig each week! It completely fills up, goes into a Read only state (which sets off the an alarm that I built to tell me when it switches to read only) and the only way I could get it to work again was to add space. I would add a gig and think, “Surely that will be enough to feed the hunger”. The next week, the alarm would go off again and I would feed it again!

I adjusted how often stats were collected, how frequently data was flushed, the max plans per query and anything else I could think to do, and still, it was hungry.

I had searched, read, googled, and kept coming up with nothing. I finally found something on corruption in the query store. CORRUPTION? Could it be possible? It was worth a try, my query store was in need of a serious diet and I still needed it to function.

The next time it went in to read only mode, I turned it off (it has to be off to fix the corruption) and ran this:

sp_query_store_consistency_check

Guess what happened next?!!!! My query store had a full gig free! I have left it alone for a few weeks and today I was able to shrink it by 5 gb! It has been glorious to have it working and not being worried as to why it was growing out of control.

The song for this post is Toad the Wet Sprocket’s Crowing

Now a personal note about Toad the Wet Sprocket. They are one of my favorite bands. Last night as I was listening to “Crowing”. I looked up the lyrics to figure out one of the words and realized I had be singing along to the wrong words. I thought it was “crowing for her” when it is actually “crowing for repair”. That completely changed the meaning of the song for me and made me love that song even more. It also made me realize I need to read Toad lyrics more often.

This also took my mind to the time that Ryan surprised me with tickets to go see them at a Reunion show in Vegas. After the show, fortune shown on me and I got to meet Glen Phillips the lead singer. He was super kind and gracious and let us take a picture and right after I fan-girled out a lot and started crying while trying to tell him how much I appreciated his and the band’s music. Huge apology to all the people I have completely scared with a fan-girl episode. I promise I try not to, just sometimes I can’t word how important that moment is to me.