What are some potential reasons that the query is slow?

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Why Are Queries Slow? Queries may have a lot of work to do. Queries may not have resources to do work quickly. Queries may be waiting.

What makes query slow?

Slow queries are frequently caused by combining two or more large tables together using a JOIN. Review the number of joins in your query, and determine if the query is pulling more information than is actually needed.

What are the most likely causes of slow running queries?

Slow running queries in SQL server can be caused by bad physical structure of a database or may be due to the latency in network communication etc. Another problem with long running queries is the issue in configuration of SQL Server.

What is considered slow SQL query?

Well, usually, we say that 1 ms is good enough for an SQL query duration, while 100 ms is worrisome. And 500-1000 ms is something that we definitely need to optimize, while 10 seconds is a total disaster.

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