• There's nothing magical about a SAN that means it's not the problem. In fact, it's very likely it is the SAN, a misconfigured SAN.

    Check the throughput you're getting from the sAN (google, there's detailed docs on that), chat with your SAN admin, check the SAN's performance.

    As for queries:

    https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-1/

    https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-2/

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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