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[Feature Request]: Query History — option to exclude specific queries from being captured
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Description
### Feature Description
Add a setting that lets users specify patterns to exclude from Query History capture.
Queries matching any pattern would not be saved to history.
Example setting:
"mssql.queryHistoryExcludePatterns": [
"sp_WhoIsActive",
"SELECT 1"
]
Behavior:
- Case-insensitive substring match by default
- If the executed query text contains any listed pattern, it is not saved to history
- No UI change needed — purely a settings.json configuration
### Problem and Motivation
Some queries are run repeatedly — dozens or even hundreds of times per session —
and are never something you'd want to retrieve from history. The most common
example for DBAs is sp_WhoIsActive, which I run 50–100 times in a single
monitoring session.
When this happens, Query History is completely flooded:
exec sp_WhoIsActive
exec sp_WhoIsActive
exec sp_WhoIsActive
... (×90 more)
Every actually useful query — the ones I'd want to recall — gets pushed out of
history entirely. The current settings (enableQueryHistoryCapture, queryHistoryLimit)
are all-or-nothing with no way to selectively suppress noisy queries.
### Related Area
- [ ] Connection dialog (SQL Server | Azure browse/Fabric browse)
- [x] Query editor
- [ ] Query results panel
- [ ] Object Explorer
- [ ] GitHub Copilot integration
- [ ] Preview/Edit data
- [ ] Table Designer
- [ ] Schema Designer
- [ ] Schema Compare
- [ ] Local SQL Server Container provisioning
- [ ] SQL database in Fabric provisioning
- [ ] DACPAC/BACPAC export/import
- [ ] SQL Database projects
- [ ] Query Plan Visualizer
- [ ] Other (please describe below)
### If you selected "Other", please describe the area
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### Confirmation
- [x] I have searched existing feature requests and couldn't find a match
- [ ] I want to help implement this feature
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