Upgrade to SQL Server 2005 resulted in 100% CPU utilization and application timeout error
My server is DL580 running on Intel Xeon Dual core Dual CPU. I have recently migrated from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. The server is dying and showing 100% CPU utilization and applications are getting Server Timeout expired error. What can I do?

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ASKED: April 4, 2008  1:46 PM
UPDATED: April 4, 2008  6:22 PM

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It's possible that you simply need to rebuild all your indexes. You'll also want to look at SQL Profiler and see exactly which queries are running the CPU up to 100%. The optimizer is SQL 2005 has been changed quite a bit and some query retuning may be needed. Unfortunately this can happen which is why it is recommended that you test everything before doing a version upgrade of your database software (the same applies to Oracle, MySQL, DB2, etc as well).
Last Wiki Answer Submitted:  April 4, 2008  6:22 pm  by  Denny Cherry   64,520 pts.
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