Operator and Query Progress Estimation in Microsoft SQL Server Live Query Statistics
Summary: Introduces Live Query Statistics (LQS) in SQL Server 2016 for global and per-operator query progress. Describes design/implementation, advanced extensions, usage examples, and evaluation of progress estimation accuracy on synthetic and real workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Kukjin Lee (Microsoft)
- 2. Arnd Christian König (Microsoft)
- 3. Vivek Narasayya (Microsoft)
- 4. Bolin Ding (Microsoft)
- 5. Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)
- 6. Brent Ellwein (Microsoft)
- 7. Alexey Eksarevskiy (Microsoft)
- 8. Manbeen Kohli (Microsoft)
- 9. Jacob Wyant (Microsoft)
- 10. Praneeta Prakash (Microsoft)
- 11. Rimma Nehme (Microsoft)
- 12. Jiexing Li (University of Wisconsin)
- 13. Jeff Naughton (University of Wisconsin)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{lee_sigmod16,
title = {{Operator and Query Progress Estimation in Microsoft SQL Server Live Query Statistics}},
author = {Lee, Kukjin and König, Arnd Christian and Narasayya, Vivek and Ding, Bolin and Chaudhuri, Surajit and Ellwein, Brent and Eksarevskiy, Alexey and Kohli, Manbeen and Wyant, Jacob and Prakash, Praneeta and Nehme, Rimma and Li, Jiexing and Naughton, Jeff},
series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2882903.2903728},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2903728},
year = {2016}
}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 563 | Plan-Structured Deep Neural Network Models for Query Performance Prediction | 2019 | VLDB | 0.0001650812 |
| 6,375 | MIFO: A Query-Semantic Aware Resource Allocation Policy | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.8932222e-05 |
| 8,984 | Hit the Gym: Accelerating Query Execution to Efficiently Bootstrap Behavior Models for Self-Driving Database Management Systems | 2024 | VLDB | 5.3395569e-05 |
| 10,529 | Robust Predicate Transfer with Dynamic Execution | 2026 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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