1. An article of manufacture comprising: a non-volatile computer readable medium, the computer readable medium storing instructions thereon for managing application server session persistence, the instructions, which when executed, comprising: identifying a change in a session attribute for an application client session, the application running in an application server environment; querying a session persistence table associated with the application running in the application server environment, the query to identify a record having the identified changed session attribute; and updating an attribute in the record identified by the query of the session persistence table, wherein the query is made to a session persistence table with session attributes grouped by common traits.