Embark on a thrilling SQL Server detective journey in this conference talk from PASS Data Community Summit. Unravel intricate plots, analyze facts, and follow clues to solve real-world SQL Server mysteries. Explore performance tuning, blocking, and server management through engaging case studies. Learn to gather accurate information, develop a complete understanding of complex SQL Server issues, and confidently tackle similar situations in your own work. Dive into topics such as slow query analysis, wait times, system sessions, input buffers, database management, default trace utilization, file size reduction challenges, index and shrink operations, allocation units, CPU optimization, and the butterfly effect in SQL Server environments. Enhance your problem-solving skills and work more efficiently with SQL Server by following along with these true detective stories.