Junior DBAs, warm up your printers. The Microsoft SQL Customer Advisory Team, aka SQLCAT, has published a flowchart explaining how to troubleshoot performance issues with SQL Server. This is by far the best visual representation I’ve seen into how a senior DBA’s brain works:
And just think – the rest of us had to learn this stuff the hard way – by reading manuals!
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Hi Brent,
Thanks for all those wonderful posts and blog articles. A long time read of your articles and videos.
Do you have this Performance troubleshooting flowchart? Microsoft SQLCAT has removed this page!
Regards,
Pritam
Pritam – no, sorry.
old post but you can find at :
https://web.archive.org/web/20081011132716/http://sqlcat.com/files/folders/280/download.aspx
Hope this helps!
Stephane
Thanks for the link, Stephane!