Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...

Production performance problems arrive with pressure. Users are waiting. Jobs are queued. Management wants answers in five minutes. The fastest-looking response — jumping straight to a query plan, ...

As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...

If someone demo's locking/blocking in SQL Server switching tabs in SSMS does not help explaining the issue. If I give these SQL Server Performance tuning demo's why not switch to an app to show lock ...