What are the most common root causes of slow queries in production?

Expert MS SQL

Answer

Slow production queries usually result from:

  • Missing or poorly designed indexes
  • Incorrect cardinality estimates
  • High fragmentation
  • Outdated statistics
  • Parameter sniffing issues
  • Excessive key lookups
  • TempDB contention or spills
  • Implicit conversions
  • Heavy sorts/hashes causing CPU pressure
  • Blocking or deadlocks

Most performance issues are caused by a combination rather than a single factor.

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