Plan Cache Tsunami
Your SQL Server may be slow for a peculiar reason: a run-away query that pushes-out all other queries from the plan cache, like a huge wave. So called “tsunami query”. Tsunami query wipes other plans from the cache and makes your SQL running slow. Creating tsunami query is easy and usually not intentional: a developer concatenates values in SQL command string. As it “works on my machine”, it easily slips to production (nobody tests for this, right?), and the monster is loose!
