Tag: performance

  • Day 11–Trace Flag 1204– Capture Deadlock information focused on nodes

    Have you ever wonder to capture Deadlock information? If so we have wonderful trace flags available in SQL server which will give you bunch of information about deadlock information. Today we are going to see one of the trace flag 1204 which will capture deadlock information focused on two nodes that is involved in deadlock.

  • Performance Data Collector

    Last month Ive 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 its almost a month so thought of writing the second part. In this part we are going to see…

  • Performance Data Collector

    Performance Data Collector is one of the new features thats accompanied from SQL Server 2008. If you are a DBA , you know its 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…

  • Capture SQL Performance Counters through TSQL

    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…

  • Configuring Data Compression

    In this article we are going to configure Data compression in SQL Server 2008. Configuring data compression is very easy with just an couple of steps. The steps are below Estimate the Compression Ratio (Optional) Configure Data Compression