I was debating using a picture of Kylie Minogue in this blog post, from her video for the song “Spinning Around”.  Because it is relevant, and not just because it’s a picture of Kylie….

Anyway.  Today, we had a problem where “all of a sudden” CPU was maxing out on a server, and the disk I/O was going through the roof.  Uh-oh, I thought, today is going to be rubbish.  Rolling up my sleeves, I opened up SQL Sentry Performance Advisor to have a look what was going on.

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