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SQL Server - PERFMON counters and Resource Governor - what you can do in a performance issue situation?

Published 17 November 8 1:41 AM | SqlServer-QA.net

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...

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

SQL Server - Precision Performance techniques using RML Utilities

Published 9 June 8 7:50 AM | SSQA.net

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...

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

SQL Server Performance issues with Fragmentation and heavy usage of TEMPDB?

Published 15 May 8 3:59 AM | SSQA.net

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...

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

SQL Server 2005 DMV - how it can help to consider whether index is useful or not?

Published 4 February 8 8:6 AM | SSQA.net

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...

Filed under: sql server, performance, indexes, dmv, 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

Published 14 January 8 2:22 AM | SSQA.net

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...

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