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title: "What are the common performance issues in SQL Server?"  
description: "What are the common performance issues in SQL Server?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2019-09-17  
updated: 2020-09-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/33617/what-are-the-common-performance-issues-in-sql-server  
category: "mssql server"  
tags: ["database", "sql server", "sql", "sql server 2008"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are the common performance issues in SQL Server?

These are following some common performance issues:

- Deadlocks
- Blocking
- Missing and unused indexes.
- I/O bottlenecks
- Poor Query plans
- Fragmentation

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

These are following some common performance issues:

- Deadlocks
- Blocking
- Missing and unused indexes.
- I/O bottlenecks
- Poor Query plans
- Fragmentation


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