SQL Friday #85 - Torsten Strauss - Resolve Locking and Blocking in SQL Server

Locks and blocking can affect the performance of your query workload but are difficult to detect and resolve. In this session, we will walk through identifying locking and blocking and learn different ways to mitigate or even eliminate blocking to improve the performance of concurrent queries in an OLTP system.

About Torsten Strauss
Torsten (MVP, MCSE, MCT) has been working with Microsoft SQL Server since the turn of the millennium and is specialized in performance optimization for large SQL Server environments.

He has been with bp as a database engineer for over two decades and collaborates closely with Sarpedon Quality Lab as a Principal Microsoft SQL Server Consultant.
Torsten is the founder of inside-sqlserver.com and has given more than 170 presentations on Microsoft SQL Server performance optimization at national and international conferences and user groups.
Torsten has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Data Platform since 2018.