Identifying SQL Server Performance Problems

Question

We\'re having sporadic, random query timeouts on our SQL Server 2005 cluster. I own a few apps that use it, so I\'m helping out in the investigation. When watching the % CPU tim

Answer 1

As Yaakov says, run profiler for a few minutes under typical load and save the results to a table which will allow you to run queries against the results making it much easier to spot any resource hogging queries.