{"id":592,"date":"2011-03-17T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Survey-what-is-the-most-common-cause-of-performance-problems.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:40:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:40:29","slug":"survey-what-are-the-most-common-causes-of-performance-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/survey-what-are-the-most-common-causes-of-performance-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: what are the most common causes of performance problems?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">This survey follows on from the survey results I <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/query-plan-analysis-first-steps\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">just blogged about<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">, and is particularly apt given we&#39;re here in Dallas this week teaching our <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/t_sqlskillsimmersionevents.asp\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Immersion Event on Performance Tuning<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">I&#39;m interested to know the root causes of your last few performance problems. I know that we all debug multiple performance problems every week, so have a think about the issues you debugged over the last week or month and vote a few times (or as many times as you want) to reflect the eventual root cause that was determined.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">In the second survey, I&#39;d like your opinion on what the most common cause of SQL Server performance problems is. Slightly different way of looking at things, and it&#39;ll be interesting to see how the results differ from the first survey.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">Please vote as many times as you want on the first survey &#8211; free survey website only allows ten choices and no multi-select &#8211; but only vote once on the second survey.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">(Damn &#8211; forgot to tick the box for &#39;Allow other&#39; as a&nbsp;response &#8211; feel free to leave a comment with another response!)&nbsp;<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<script>\nem24_survey_x = \"62c0d018-9b8b-40af-a975-1dbd96912d24\";\nem24_survey_width = \"255\";\nem24_survey_height = \"330\";\nem24_styles = \".em24_s {border:solid 1px #626A84; width:250px;} .em24_s td {font-size:12px;} .em24_q {background:#798BC6; color:#ffffff;} .em24_ai0, .em24_at0 {background:#E7F3FF; border-top:1px solid #B3C7D9;} .em24_ai1, .em24_at1 {background:#E3F7DE; border-top:1px solid #B3C7D9;} .em24_v {background:#798BC6}\";<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/my.surveypopups.com\/show\/si.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script>\nem24_survey_x = \"e75a2aa0-c71e-4deb-9549-7db6e5a4ac9c\";\nem24_survey_width = \"255\";\nem24_survey_height = \"315\";\nem24_styles = \".em24_s {border:solid 1px #626A84; width:250px;} .em24_s td {font-size:12px;} .em24_q {background:#798BC6; color:#ffffff;} .em24_ai0, .em24_at0 {background:#E7F3FF; border-top:1px solid #B3C7D9;} .em24_ai1, .em24_at1 {background:#E3F7DE; border-top:1px solid #B3C7D9;} .em24_v {background:#798BC6}\";<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/my.surveypopups.com\/show\/si.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">I&#39;ll report on the results in a couple of weeks. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Thanks! <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This survey follows on from the survey results I just blogged about, and is particularly apt given we&#39;re here in Dallas this week teaching our Immersion Event on Performance Tuning. 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