Noun – thwack (plural thwacks)
SAP HANA slowdowns are easy to misread when teams start with infrastructure symptoms alone. Learn how wait-based analysis can help database teams identify where delay is building, what changed, and which SQL, blocking, plan, or resource context matters most.
This is the second of two connected posts on SQL Server CPU.
In this post, Kevin Kline focuses on the moving parts that turn into real incidents: SQL Server wait statistics, thread scheduling pressure, troubleshooting workflow, and how observability tools shorten the path from symptom to root cause. In Part 1, we looked at how SQL Server uses CPU, why high CPU usage in SQL Server is often misunderstood, and which configuration habits help create a more stable, high-performance environment.
This is the first of two connected posts on database performance tuning. In this post, Kevin Kline explains how SQL Server uses CPU, why high SQL Server CPU usage is often misunderstood, and which configuration habits help build a more stable, high-performance environment.
In the second post, we look at SQL Server wait statistics, scheduler pressure, troubleshooting workflow, and how to arrive at root cause faster.