• Well, I'm on a new job, and am investigating performance problems. The first thing I'm looking at is everything that is causing deadlocks.

    Every time, the root procedure is performing selects against multiple tables where the only indexes are on the PK, and a rowguid for replication. That's it. There queries are performing table/CI scans constantly. Adding a few indexes has helped tremendously with the stability of the server and their application.

    Wayne
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
    Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes


    If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!
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    Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2