Runnable vs suspended is the question I hear most about the sp_who2 status column. A Runnable session waits for CPU, and a Suspended one waits for a resource such as I/O. Here are all five statuses in plain words.
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Watching Many Servers Without Buying Anything
Use scheduled snapshots to monitor SQL Server with central storage, failure reporting, and four focused queries collected every five minutes.
Finding Procedures That Reference Databases That No Longer Exist
Find procedures that reference databases missing from the instance, retain review coverage, and check dynamic SQL and synonyms separately.
Instance Health in One Query: Uptime, Memory, CPU and Waits
Check instance health in one result set with uptime, memory, a recent CPU sample, leading waits, and the user-session count.
SQL SERVER – Priority Boost and SSMS 18
My client thought SQL Server dropped the Priority Boost setting. It did not. Here is what changed with Priority Boost and SSMS 18 on the Processors page.
How to Know When Memory Constraints are Negatively Impacting CPU in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #216
How do you know when memory constraints are hurting CPU in SQL Server? Someone asked me this loaded question before a Health Check, and here is my answer.
SQL SERVER – Default Worker Threads Per Number of CPUs
The default Worker Threads limit depends on SQL Server version, logical CPUs and memory. A workshop reader asked about automatic configuration.
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