Hi All,
Am diagnosing a 'slow' application and looking at the database server first. I ran Paul Randall's waitstats script and here is the output.
Couple questions as i'm going through this:
1) Even though CXPACKET is the most waited on (in terms of %), the avgwait_s is 0.006 which is very small, meaning it shouldn't be a cause for concern. We have MAXDOP=8 on a 12 CPU server.
2) The waits with the highest avgwait_s are LCK_M_IX and LCK_M_S so i *think* these would be the obvious place to start an investigation. If so, i've read these could be indicative of blocking (or not), but what other areas can i look at to further dive into these waits?
Thanks in advance.