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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 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...

Filed under: sql server, perfmon, performance, dmv, cache, buffer, sysmon, tempdb, monitoring, temp tables, worktables, workfiles, ratio

SQL Server error: messages are appearing when the working set of SQL Server 2005 process reaches 50 percent of the memory that is committed to the process.

Published 7 March 8 4:54 AM | SSQA.net

Have you seen the above message within the SQL Server error logs? If not then no need to worry and make sure to continue your performance monitoring tasks. So when to be concerned! It is evident that SQL Server 2005 component handles memory differently...

Filed under: sql server, performance, memory, dmv, windows, 2000, 2005, awe, 64 bit, monitoring, worker threads, paging out, buffers, verison

SQL Server 2005: Deny Server-Level Dynamic Management Views to public group

Published 21 December 7 7:47 AM | SSQA.net

As you are aware DMV - Dynamic management views are very good to provide server-level information and some of them with detailed information on the execution environment of the database engine. Just to introduce about DMVs, there are two types of dynamic...

Filed under: sql server, package, performance, security, dmv, users, view, best practice, public, monitoring, server state