Hey Everyone,
The company I work for currently runs, due to application limitations, a SQL 2000 server. Between the nights of 5/12/2017 and 5/13/2017, we picked up a rather large loss of performance in our metrics logs. No tickets, updates, maintenance, etc occurred on or even near those date. We have tried the obvious things which include:
- Restarting SQL.
- Restarting the server (Windows Server 2000).
- Archiving data that was no longer needed.
- Rebuilding Indexes and Statistics.
- Ran performance monitors on disk io, cpu, lazy reads and writes, etc.
- Checked physical fragmentation on the database drives. (although its my understanding this doesn't really matter in a SAN environment).
None of this has been successful to this point. The only thing we turned up is that the Disk IO monitor we ran shows large timely spikes in Disk Read/sec and Disk...