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tcronines
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Posted - 2014-06-05 : 09:48:23
supporting 3rd party app, over weekend new patch put in. Performance took a dive, tempdb went from about 8 gig to stuck at 175 gig, any ideas where best place to look might be?

James K
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

3873 Posts

Posted - 2014-06-05 : 12:17:24
quote:
Originally posted by tcronines

supporting 3rd party app, over weekend new patch put in. Performance took a dive, tempdb went from about 8 gig to stuck at 175 gig, any ideas where best place to look might be?

Not to sound flippant, but the third party software vendor should be called on the carpet for releasing dangerous software on the unsuspecting public.

This page might be very useful - there are a number of queries there that let you get some insight into what might be causing the problem. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176029.aspx

If their software and usage patterns have not be radically modified in the patch, ask the vendor if they have turned on RCSI on the database with this patch. Version store can sometimes take up a lot of space.
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2014-06-05 : 12:46:52
On top of what James said, run a trace/extended event session to capture the long-running queries.

If it is due to RCSI, you also need to check for transactions left open too long.


Tara Kizer
SQL Server MVP since 2007
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tcronines
Starting Member

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Posted - 2014-06-05 : 16:34:53
may have found culprit sp which called another sp had a table variable created inside of it. Caused 111000 logical reads. Changed their code to use standard temp table insted of table variabel , went to 17 logical reads
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