Kendra Little on collecting wait stats as part of a baseline:
I do love wait stats!
If you listened to the performance tuning methodology I outlined in an earlier episode, you saw how important I think wait stats are for troubleshooting performance.
If you missed that episode, it’s called Lost in Performance Tuning. (I’ve got an outline of the discussion in the blog post, as always.)
I agree with Kendra’s advice that buying a vendor tool is the right choice here, whenever it’s possible. It’s fairly likely that you’ll spend more money creating (and maintaining) your own scaled-down version of a vendor tool than biting the bullet and paying for a packaged product.