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Wait Event Analysis

What are wait events and why are they important for performance analysis?

November 22, 2017August 2, 2018 ~ franklinyamamoto

While trying to get to the bottom of a SQL Server performance issue, on many occasions I’ve seen engineering teams and in some cases DBA’s start focussing on perfmon counters to determine where a SQL performance issue is coming from.  Performance counters quite often will report symptoms of a performance issue and can many times […]

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