MSSQL Operations Debugging

For bugfix authorization and plan prerequisites, defer to itsol-workflow-mode; retain evidence, root-cause analysis, TDD/replacement verification, and final review in every mode.

Use this skill when diagnosing SQL Server production or pre-production issues in .NET systems: slow endpoints, timeouts, high CPU, blocking, deadlocks, log growth, failed migrations, backup/restore risk, failover issues, or connection pool pressure.

Process

1. State expected behavior, actual symptom, user impact, affected time window, and recent changes.
2. Gather evidence from application logs, traces, metrics, Query Store, execution plans, wait stats, blocking/deadlock data, connection pool behavior, deployment history, and database maintenance state before proposing a fix.
3. Isolate whether the root cause is query shape, missing/wrong index, parameter sniffing, locks, transaction scope, stats, connection pool pressure, migration/backfill, HA/failover, or infrastructure capacity.
4. Implement one root-cause fix or produce a technical fix plan with verification and rollback/roll-forward steps.

Coordination

Use with itsol-bug-debugging for mode-valid Technical Fix Plan state under itsol-workflow-mode, mssql-review for risk review, dotnet-web-api-debugging for API symptoms, and infra-* skills when the issue touches deployment, storage, backup, HA, monitoring, or capacity.

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