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How do you define the terms ''Performance Monitoring''? What is your baseline & benchmarks? Have you ever used PERFMON (SYSMON) & PROFILER for serious performance issues within your SQL Server environment? The answer may be not 'yes' for all the questions above, in general getting know more about performance monitoring methods is not ...

What kind of database maintenance operations you should be doing when you are DBA? You should have better understanding on the terms in managing the Database platform at your end, without proper information it is very hard to say you are managing your platform effectively. Think about DBCC checks, backups and database maintenance tasks and list ...

As a DBA you should now how locking works with tables and how best you can make use of indexing enhancements within SQL Server 2005 version.   Until SQL 2000 there was a limited availability of documentation on the guidelines even in the Books online and most of the times we have to depend upon the web resources or ...

You might have observed errors when using Performance Dashboard reports that is available (recently) for SQL Server 2005, the error below is mostly ocurred: Difference of two datetime columns caused overflow at runtime. Based on the forums & other blogs on the web suggests that  The fix for that error is to update setup.sql file ...

Another set of reports you can generate using SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard Reports, this is mainly useful to monitor and resolve performance problems on your SQL Server 2005 database server using the Management Studio client. The reports allow a database administrator to quickly identify whether there is a current bottleneck on their ...

Performance Dashboard Reports are used to monitor and resolve performance problems on your SQL Server 2005 database server. The SQL Server instance being monitored and the Management Studio client used to run the reports must both be running SP2 or later. Download the tool from here.