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I know that Query Store can show tempdb usage as of SQL Server 2017, but can it show spills to tempdb? I'm highly confident that the plan cache can.

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  • why are you confident?
    – nbk
    Commented Feb 17 at 1:05
  • @nbk sp_blitzcache reports on it.
    – J. Mini
    Commented Feb 17 at 1:06
  • sys.dm_exec_query_stats contains spill stats SQL Server 2017 CU3 + : learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/… Commented Feb 17 at 4:33
  • If it was going to store that aggregated information it would be in sys.query_store_runtime_stats - and no such columns there - so looks like not persisted to query store Commented Feb 17 at 9:37
  • @MitchWheat That's helpful, but I'm pretty sure that's got nothing to do with Query Store.
    – J. Mini
    Commented Feb 17 at 14:20

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nope

But you may be able to infer that a select spilled to disk if values for average or total writes are "high", and the query plan:

  • Doesn't contain any spooling operators
  • Does contain operators which may spill (sort, hash, etc.)

See Why would a SELECT query cause writes? for more details.

If you're on SQL Server 2017+, sys.query_store_runtime_stats has columns for tempdb space used, but this is not specific to spills.

number of pages used in tempdb for the query plan within the aggregation interval (expressed as a number of 8-KB pages).

They have the standard min, max, last, etc. prefixes appended to _tempdb_space_used.

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