Last month I’ve wrote an article on Performance Data Collector part one, I thought of writing part 2 soon however I was stuck with Organizing SQL Code Camp with my fellow MVP Deepak & Sugesh. Now it’s almost a month so thought of writing the second part. In this part we are going to see how to customize the data collection, retrieval of reports from PDW (Performance Data Warehouse) etc.
Category Archives: Performance
Performance Data Collector – Part 1
Posted by Vidhya Sagar
on June 24, 2010
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Performance Data Collector is one of the new features that’s accompanied from SQL Server 2008. If you are a DBA , you know it’s very hard to get performance data from necessary inputs. We will get the data from Perfmon (system monitor), profiler, DMV etc and correlating this data is very hard, implementing the same process or scripts across your environment is also time consuming one. To Overcome this MS has added Performance data collector feature in SQL 2008. In a Nutshell performance data collector will collect performance data (integrating all your data from your server), upload it in centralized management data warehouse (MDW) in relational format and finally allows you to see reports in graphical format.
Capture SQL Performance Counters through TSQL
Posted by Vidhya Sagar
on April 9, 2010
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Performance counters are useful to gather information about server status and we can analyze the server status later using these data. In my environment one of my client is not ready to pay or buy metrics tools (normally we will be using BMC, HP etc). Our windows team has written they own custom scripts to capture the counters related to them, then it comes to our team how we are going to capture these data. Immediately it strikes my mind that we have a DMV “sys.dm_os_performance_counters” to get SQL performance counter values. So I thought of utilizing this procedure to get SQL Performance counter values and storing it in a table which will help us in the future to analyze the data.
Utilizing SQL 2005 Performance Dashboard in SQL Server 2008
Posted by Vidhya Sagar
on September 26, 2009
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I got a question from one of our UG member. He asked whether we can use SQL Server 2005 performance dashboard with SQL Server 2008. When we tried at the session we failed to implement it in SQL2K8. I was just thinking this today and planned to try this. I found out the reason why we failed to implement and what has changed in the query.
Query tuning steps
Posted by Vidhya Sagar
on December 30, 2008
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Query tuning is an interested topic in SQL Server. Deepak has written an article on query tuning in our main website, please read the article below and make use of it.
Most of the DBA’s new to query tuning would wonder where to start in order to tune a query. I hope this article would probably guide them in understanding the steps to begin with.