Historic Waits Advisor

The Historic Waits advisor gives you a break down of the waits that have been caused by a given query or plan.  For instance in screenshot below you can see that IO_COMPLETION is the most common wait type from the report, followed by WAITFOR, then RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE.    You can see how these are trending over time.

Sample showing each wait type with a different color.

“This is absolutely the coolest feature in the Database Health Project.” – Steve Stedman

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