Category: Performance Tuning
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How to Check Blocking SPIDs in SQL Server
Blocking is one of the most common causes of performance issues in SQL Server. When one session holds a lock on a resource and another session needs that same resource, the second session waits. If that wait persists, users experience slowness. Understanding how to quickly identify blocking SPIDs is a core DBA skill. This guide…
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DBA Scripts: Get Long-Running Queries
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting › Query & Performance Tuning When users report the application is slow, the first question is always the same: what is actually running right now? Not what ran an hour ago, not what the plan cache thinks is expensive on…
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DBA Scripts: Get Database IO Usage
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting › Query & Performance Tuning When a SQL Server is struggling and the usual suspects (CPU, memory, blocking) come back clean, the next question is always the same: which database is hammering the disks? On a busy instance hosting ten…
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DBA Scripts: Get Wait Statistics
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting Every time a SQL Server session has to wait for something, a lock, a page from disk, a CPU slice, a memory grant, the engine records what it waited on and for how long. Those counters are the instance’s own…
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DBA Scripts: Get Worker Threads and Active Sessions
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting › Query & Performance Tuning There is a particular kind of SQL Server incident where the server is up, CPU looks fine, and yet new connections hang or time out. Applications report login failures, and even your own SSMS connection…
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