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That's why, every year or two, Microsoft announces a brand new monitoring tool. The last couple of decades have been an amazing blur, and you would be forgiven for missing Microsoft's rapid innovations, so let's bring you up to speed:
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SQL Server uses wait stats to track what queries are waiting on. Rather than monitoring gazillions of Perfmon counters and DMV objects, the easiest way to make your queries go faster is to ask, "What is my server waiting on?" Then, focus your efforts on your server's top wait type. When you're learning how to…
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