Slowness of a SQL Server

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From: Paul (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/17/04


Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:03:42 -0700

Have a look on the Microsoft site for the SQL operations
guide. Its got lots of useful information, including
what counters to monitor.

Paul.
>-----Original Message-----
>I am very new to SQL Server dba world and I have a
server
>that is running very slow. I want to run some
performance
>monitoring or profiler and I like to know what counters
to
>add in order to figure out why the server is so slow.
In
>fact a simple select of 3000 rows takes like 8 - 10
>minutes to return something.
>
>On a similar server with a little bit more memore, it
>returns the results in a few seconds. Both tables have
>the necessary indexes - so I am just looking on the
server
>side what I can do. Please help if you can. Thank you.
>
>Ashley
>.
>



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