You learn a lot when thrown into a crisis situation, where everyone is looking to you for answers. The system is down, the CEO is pleading to you for answers as the each minute cuts the company’s bottom line. When you are in a hurry, you need some new ideas right away. This book is your helpful tool. When used correctly, you can determine solutions and even related solutions to simple (yet lesser known) areas of SQL Server. Learn what causes SQL tasks to wait or site in queues. Even if your system is not in trouble right now, you can use what you will learn in this book to view the history of wait statistics.