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SQL Server Audit Trace - things you need to take care!

Published 6 March 8 3:17 AM | SSQA.net

Audit trace is very helpful when you want to monitor a particular processes on your SQL Server, even for the successful logins and recent users activity on the databsaes. But the default trace would have many columns with the information and you need...

Filed under: SOX, sql server, microsoft, solution, dmv, trace, audit, tsql, trace flag, c2

SQL Server: How do I identify the queries that are worth tuning?

Published 16 November 7 7:2 AM | SSQA.net

Have you ever asked this question about how do I identify the queries that worth tuning? The simple answer it is neither easy or hard to obtain such information if you have managed your SQL Server by deploying industry best practices (wherever possible...

Filed under: sql server, performance, management, microsoft, blogs, technet, dmv, dba, best practice, slow query

Identifying top 20 most expensive queries in terms of read I/O (referred from Technet Magazine)

Published 15 November 7 7:16 AM | SSQA.net

It is worth mentioning the valueable query I have been through when referring to Technet Magazine, the following query has given me useful information in finding out what are my top 20 most expensive queries that are consuming most of disk I/O (read &...

Filed under: sql server, performance, microsoft, technet, dmv, top, tsql, reads, system resources, expensive query, identity, writes

Get SYSMON counters using a TSQL query aka DMVs.

Published 31 May 7 10:26 AM | SSQA.net

SYSMON aka PERFMON is a best tool to find out the system resources usage on a Windows server, similarly SQL Server 2005 has list of such useful DMVs to get you more information on many of the SQL Server-related objects, instances and counters by using...

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How to find list of DMVs & DMFs?

Published 31 May 7 9:22 AM | SSQA.net

As most of blogs in this section travels through usage of Dynamic Management Views (DMV) & Dynamic Management Functions (DMF) I have had an email asking What is DMV & DMF and how to find list of them from a SQL Server instance. The internal mechanism...

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