Deadlock troubleshooting in Sql Server 2008

Question

My website doesn\'t seem to handle a high number of visitors, I believe it\'s because the server is too simple.

2 hours ago my website was getting a lot of hits and

Answer 1

Writes will block reads on SQL Server, unless you have row versioning enabled. You should use the sp_who2 stored procedure and a SQL Profiler trace. sp_who2 will tell you which processes are blocking which, and the profiler will tell you what the last statement was for the blocking process.