Transcription of Video: Hi, I’m Steve Stedman, with Stedman Solutions, LLC. And one of the things that I wanted to do today was to answer some questions around what we do with a SQL Server health assessment. The screen you’re …

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Top reasons for slow SQL Server performance I typically see are: Slow Running Queries, these are queries that run slow even with just one user in the database. Caused by poorly written queries. Caused by missing indexes. > See Database …

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CXCONSUMER and CXPACKET are associated with parallelism. When a query that has a cost beyond the cost threshold for parallelism then that query will be split out to be worked on by multiple cores. This is a good thing. It …

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I received this question from someone visiting the blog, and realized that rather than just replying to them, it might be good to put the options out there for everyone to see. Hello, I came across your website and it seems …

Guidance on Query Optimization Read more »