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SQL Server 2005 PERFMON counter spikes in Transactions/sec and Buffer Cache Hit ratio, what does it say?

Published 14 March 8 4:16 AM | SSQA.net

Recently I was involved in one of the Performance Audit exercise at a client's place where they complain about Server CPU is always HIGH and what they have observed is even the physical disk where TEMPDB is located has been used extensively, as they...

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List of CPU based DMVs in SQL Server 2005 - best used for hardware analysis

Published 5 August 7 2:32 PM | SSQA.net

Dynamic Management Views (DMV) are very useful to get server state information to monitor the status, but not always you have to still continue in monitoring using SYSMON & PROFILER that are available by default with SQL installation. The engine within...

Filed under: sql server, performance, dmv, cache, i/o, cpu