I am a student from Fontys University in Eindhoven, and I am currently carrying out a series of interviews to help with the development of a SQL Server tool and I would like to get feedback from the experts in the field.
One of my questions is:
What are the top 3 performance issues that you encounter with your SQL Server Instances and how do you identify those problems?
Particularly I am interested in the scripts and the tools used to measure this.
Best Answer
Off the top of my head - top 3 query problems:
There's a lot more around server-level config problems, database schema problems, hardware problems, etc. I wrote a script to quickly analyze servers looking for these kinds of problems:
http://www.brentozar.com/blitz/