slowness of queries

  • What wait types do we need to analyse the slowness of queries in sql by using the dmv sys.dm_os_wait_stats

  • There isn't any specific wait type(s) to look for when you have slow queries. When you have a slow query, check what it is waiting on and proceed from there.

    You can use the code below to identify if anything is currently waiting.

    SELECT

    [owt].[session_id],

    [owt].[wait_duration_ms],

    [owt].[wait_type],

    [owt].[blocking_session_id],

    [es].program_name,

    CASE [owt].[wait_type]

    WHEN N'CXPACKET' THEN

    RIGHT ([owt].[resource_description],

    CHARINDEX (N'=', REVERSE ([owt].[resource_description])) - 1)

    ELSE NULL

    END AS [Node ID],

    [est].text,

    [er].[database_id],

    [eqp].[query_plan]

    FROM sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks [owt]

    INNER JOIN sys.dm_os_tasks [ot] ON

    [owt].[waiting_task_address] = [ot].[task_address]

    INNER JOIN sys.dm_exec_sessions [es] ON

    [owt].[session_id] = [es].[session_id]

    INNER JOIN sys.dm_exec_requests [er] ON

    [es].[session_id] = [er].[session_id]

    OUTER APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text ([er].[sql_handle]) [est]

    OUTER APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan ([er].[plan_handle]) [eqp]

    WHERE

    [es].[is_user_process] = 1

    ORDER BY

    [owt].[session_id],

    [owt].[exec_context_id];

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  • Wait types tell you what's causing things to run slow on the system, what it's waiting on. That doesn't tell you what query to look at or what to do about that query. Instead, you have to look to other resources for that information (although, using Extended Events, you can also track and correlates the waits experienced by a certain query).

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