True SQL Server Detective

Embark on a thrilling SQL Server detective journey in this conference talk from PASS Data Community Summit. Unravel intricate plots, analyze facts, and follow clues to solve real-world SQL Server mysteries. Explore performance tuning, blocking, and server management through engaging case studies. Learn to gather accurate information, develop a complete understanding of complex SQL Server issues, and confidently tackle similar situations in your own work. Dive into topics such as slow query analysis, wait times, system sessions, input buffers, database management, default trace utilization, file size reduction challenges, index and shrink operations, allocation units, CPU optimization, and the butterfly effect in SQL Server environments. Enhance your problem-solving skills and work more efficiently with SQL Server by following along with these true detective stories.

Introduction
Agenda
Why query is slow
Query Text
Wait Time
System Sessions
Most Recent SQL Handle
Query Update
Input Buffer
Where is my database
The default trace
Checking the default trace
File size is not reducing
Shrink
Index oops
Shrink oops
Three allocation units
Radical changes
CPU boring
CPU cleanup
Butterfly Effect