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CXPACKET Waits and High CPU Usage Bottleneck SQL Server 2008 2012 2014 2016

CXPACKET Waits and High CPU Usage Bottleneck SQL Server 2008 2012 2014 2016

When you suspect SQL Server is waiting on CPU and CPU is constantly spiked on 90-100% or SQL server high cpu usage query then it would wise to check the Top Waits Stats on SQL Server to see if the Top Waits is on “CXPACKET” by using Top Waits Rollup Query here.

Most of the time, DBA needs to find the culprit queries which are using high CPU and try to optimize it them by designing proper indexes or by rewriting the SQL more efficiently. SQL Server High CPU Usage query below can be very useful.

The queries useful in troubleshooting CPU

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Monitoring  SQL Server Performance is one of important task for a DBA using Performance Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. 

Performance monitoring can by done by many ways including monitoring SQL Performance Counters below which are for %Processor utilization and Disk Queue Monitoring. Perfmon analysis is important step in troubleshooting issues when a application goes slow.

Performance Monitor in SQL Server 2012 , 2014, 2016 etc are also very capable

 Important Perfmon Counters %Processor and Disk monitoring counters

S.NO Performance Counter Name Comments
9 Processor – %Processor Time The percentage of time the processor spent executing a non-idle thread. This value is subtracted from the time the processor was idle 100 percent. This is an indicator to the overall CPU utilization
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