Richard Douglas
Richard Douglas is the Principal Solutions Engineer for SentryOne where he specialises in providing Microsoft Data Platform monitoring solutions and system health checks to organisations across the globe.
SQLBits 2015
Wait watchers-Gain Performance Increases Fast!
In this session you'll learn all about SQL Server wait statistics. These are statistics the database engine stores about the resources it is waiting on. Armed with this information you as a SQL Server professional can make better informed decisions.
We're all told to watch our weight and to exercise more, so to flip this on its head I will be showing you exercises that you can do to watch your waits. You could even eat a Danish pastry while watching if you wish (Danish pastry’s not provided).
In this session you will learn all about SQL Server’s wait statistics, these are statistics the database engine stores about the resources it is waiting on. Armed with this information you as a SQL Server professional can make better informed decisions on which areas of your environment to tune to greater effect.
After attending this session you will be able to know where to find, interpret and use this information to tie down problem areas in your SQL Server estate not to fix that problem query, but improve overall performance for all of your users.
In this session you will learn all about SQL Server’s wait statistics, these are statistics the database engine stores about the resources it is waiting on. Armed with this information you as a SQL Server professional can make better informed decisions on which areas of your environment to tune to greater effect.
After attending this session you will be able to know where to find, interpret and use this information to tie down problem areas in your SQL Server estate not to fix that problem query, but improve overall performance for all of your users.