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SQL Server - PERFMON counters and Resource Governor - what you can do in a performance issue situation?
17 November 08 12:41 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   

PERFMON and Resource Governor - two great tools in hand for a DBA to monitor/resolve the performance problems, agreee! Back in olden days you may remember about SQLDiag and PSSDiag, the utility used as a general purpose diagnostics collection utility Read More...

Filed under: performance, sql server, dmv, perfmon, dba, sysmon, performance monitoring, new feature, resource governor

SQL Server - Precision Performance techniques using RML Utilities
09 June 08 05:50 AM | SQL Master | 4 Comments   

As a DBA, you probably often find yourself striving or struggling to improve the performance of SQL Server instance queries (might be smaller or complex ones). By default in order to get further analysis on the system's performance you need to perform Read More...

Filed under: performance, sql server, dmv, sqldiag, performance monitoring, pssdiag, rml, sqlnexus, utilities, sqlcat

SQL Server Performance issues with Fragmentation and heavy usage of TEMPDB?
15 May 08 01:59 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   

Whenever a performance issue occurs on the SQL Server database best option for diagnosing and troubleshooting common problems by using publicly available tools such as Profiler, System Monitor (Perfmon), and Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) in SQL Server Read More...

Filed under: performance, sql server, dmv, tempdb, monitoring, performance monitoring, benchmarking, best practices

SQL Server 2005 DMV - how it can help to consider whether index is useful or not?
04 February 08 07:06 AM | SQL Master | 4 Comments   

When it comes to performance, for a DBA indexes are the first one to come to mind in order to fine tune the tasks on the database. In this series we have already covered this huge topic of indexing and how best you can make use of Dynamic Management Views Read More...

Filed under: performance, sql server, dmv, indexes, dba, performance monitoring, index plan

SQL Server Query Performance - think about page split and fragmentation, measures to reduce the behaviour and best use of dm_db_index_physical_stats DMV
14 January 08 01:22 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   

It is an universal truth in the database field that due to the fragmentation and page split the performance will be affected even for a simple [ SELECT <ColumnName> from.... ] type of query. So what you need to check or take action in terms of DBA Read More...

Filed under: performance, sql server, dmv, indexes, dba, best practice, maintenance plan, performance monitoring, sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats, measures