While a lot of query performance tuning involves detailed knowledge of the systems, queries, statistics, indexes, and all the rest of the information put forward in this book, certain aspects of query tuning are fairly mechanical in nature. The process of noticing a missing index suggestion and then testing whether that index helps or hurts a query and whether it hurts other queries could be automated. The same thing goes for certain kinds of bad parameter sniffing where it’s clear that one plan is superior to another. Microsoft ...
25. Automated Tuning in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server
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