u/Comfortable-Mirage

This keeps happening and it’s getting old.

A query works fine in dev and staging. Then it hits production traffic, starts timing out, and suddenly everyone is pretending the dashboard didn’t just catch fire.

We’re looking into dbForge Studio for SQL Server to analyze execution plans and profile queries. It looks useful, but I’m trying to understand how teams actually fit this into their workflow.

Do you use tools like this before deployment, during monitoring, or mostly after something breaks?

Trying to catch these earlier instead of doing the usual “why is prod screaming?” routine.