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Database Performance Health Check: Six Months Slow, Fixed in 75 Minutes

July 21, 2026
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, SQL Wait Stats

Six months of slow SQL, fixed in 75 minutes. See what a database performance health check finds, and how one focused 4-hour session ends the guessing.

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SQL Server Wait Statistics Dashboard.

AI Built SQL Server Wait Statistics Dashboard in Minutes

March 11, 2026
Pinal Dave
AI
AI, Professional Development, SQL Wait Stats

One prompt. Twelve lines of plain English. A complete, production-quality, dark-themed SQL Server Wait Statistics Dashboard. And a feeling I am still not sure how to name.

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SQL SERVER Performance: When MAXDOP = 1 Slowed Down the Entire Business

July 25, 2025
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, MAXDOP, SQL CPU, SQL Wait Stats

Slow reports, slow transactions, and the internal team could not find why. In this case study, MAXDOP = 1 was quietly slowing down the entire business.

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SQL SERVER – Thread Pool Waits: Monitoring and Optimization

June 30, 2023
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL CPU, SQL Wait Stats

Thread pool waits management plays a vital role in maximizing the utilization of threads and ensuring the smooth execution of tasks.

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Query Store Wait Stats: Why a Query Was Slow, Not Just That It Was

May 30, 2023
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Query Store, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Wait Stats

Read Query Store wait stats by query, plan, interval, and category, then compare matched windows with execution counts and capture coverage.

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Chatty Applications: Finding Many Tiny Queries per Second

April 28, 2023
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Counter, SQL Extended Events, SQL Monitoring, SQL Server, SQL Wait Stats

Diagnose chatty applications with batch rates, cached executions, bounded session event counts, and measured round trips per user action.

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Live Plans for Running Queries With sys.dm_exec_query_statistics_xml

June 23, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Execution Plan, SQL DMV, SQL Server, SQL Wait Stats

Read sys.dm_exec_query_statistics_xml for live plans, compare profile counts with estimates, and interpret partial progress carefully.

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