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SQL Performance Troubleshooting

This document provides a high-level overview of isolating and troubleshooting SQL performance issues. It categorizes overall SQL Server slowness issues as CPU/memory bottlenecks, I/O bottlenecks, blocking, network bottlenecks, latch waits, configuration issues, or capacity limitations. Specific query slowness can be caused by the query executing state being slow due to stale statistics, fragmentation, execution plans, or compilations, or the query waiting state being slow due to I/O bottlenecks, blocking, network I/O, latch waits, or resource waits. The document serves as a guide to troubleshooting performance issues based on observed bottlenecks.

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SQL Performance Troubleshooting

This document provides a high-level overview of isolating and troubleshooting SQL performance issues. It categorizes overall SQL Server slowness issues as CPU/memory bottlenecks, I/O bottlenecks, blocking, network bottlenecks, latch waits, configuration issues, or capacity limitations. Specific query slowness can be caused by the query executing state being slow due to stale statistics, fragmentation, execution plans, or compilations, or the query waiting state being slow due to I/O bottlenecks, blocking, network I/O, latch waits, or resource waits. The document serves as a guide to troubleshooting performance issues based on observed bottlenecks.

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SQL Performance troubleshooting guide: A walk through

This article gives a high-level view of isolating SQL Performance issues and logical approach to troubleshoot
them.

SQL Server performance issues can be broadly categorized as:


 Overall Server slowness
 Specific query slowness

If SQL Server overall performance is slow, then we can categorize the issues as below: If SQL Server overall
performance is slow, then we can categorize the issues as below:
 CPU/High Memory bottleneck
 IO Bottleneck
 Blocking
 Network bottleneck
 Latch Waits
 SQL Configuration issues
 Capacity limitation
 SQL/Windows known issues

If a specific query is slow, then then the threads executing the query is either in one of the following states:
 Executing/Running
 Waiting

If the query is in executing state and the query execution is slow, the issues can be because of:
 Stale statistics
 High Index/Heap fragmentation
 Bad SQL Execution Plan
 Optimizer timeout
 Long compilations

If the query is in waiting state and the query execution is slow, the issues can be because of:
 IO Bottleneck (PAGE IO Latch/Writelog)
 Blocking
 Network IO/Client Fetch
 Latch Waits
 Resource Semaphore waits
The above walk through is at very high level and refer it as a guide map while troubleshooting performance
issues. Based on the bottleneck observed, issue can be drilled further by using dmv's or other
troubleshooting tools.

Written By
Don Castelino | Premier Field Engineer | Microsoft

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