Thanks, Martin. In our case even a warm boot didn't clear the issue. The machine took forever to come back up and was very slow right away. ...

Thanks, John, for the reply.

Was this ever resolved? We've twice seen the same issue on a Dell R720. Every tiny action maxes the CPU and everything performs horribly. Even a warm...

Here's what we did: Setup a daily scheduled OS task (not Agent!) that runs a .BAT file.

This .BAT file does this:

1. runs a SQL script that:

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