Performance Monitoring

Overview of Azure SQL Database Performance Monitoring

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• Azure SQL database

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Transitioning to the Platform-as-a-Service model typically implies relinquishing certain degree of control over your computing environment. One of the primary concerns related to this transition is diminished level of transparency providing insights into performance of cloud-resident workloads. Fortunately, with Azure SQL Database, you have a wide range of options that address this concern, allowing you to identify and remediate overwhelming majority of performance-related issues.

2019-01-29

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Average Page Life Expectancy

• by starps

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Performance Monitoring

• Script

A useful script that I wrote that will sample the DMV sys.dm_os_performance_counters table to provide an average PLE captured in (1) minute intervals.

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2010-12-01 (first published: 2010-11-16)

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Gathering Perfmon Data with Powershell

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Inspired to streamline the process of gathering and storing data from Performance Monitor Counters, SQL Server MVP Laerte Junior guides us through the functions of his remarkably useful module.

2010-07-21

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Performance Counter DMV sys.dm_os_performance_counters

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By querying a single DMV, sys.dm_os_performance_counters to be precise, you can collect counter information that you would receive from PerfMon for the various SQL Server counters.

2010-06-29

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Performance Analysis Using SQL Server 2008 Activity Monitor Tool

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While looking through the new features and improvements in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio (SSMS) we found a potentially interesting one called Activity Monitor. Database developers and Database Administrators can use Activity Monitor to get a quick overview of an SQL Server 2008 system performance. Can you give us a detailed explanation of how we go about using Activity Monitor?

2010-01-26

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SQL Server Tempdb Usage and Bottlenecks tracked with Extended Events

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How do I effectively find out if the Tempdb database is suffering from an allocation bottleneck? Should I create multiple TempDB files per core on this server to improve performance? How do I check this information programmatically?

2009-10-13

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Collecting Query Statistics for SQL Server 2005

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With SQL Server 2005 DMVs, we can easily find query performance statistics. Every DBA has a favorite script to find query performance stats. I also have one. But, are all the queries captured by the DMVs? In this tip I will walk through capturing some of this data and show what is capture and what is not captured by the DMVs.

2009-10-05

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Don't Build a Monitoring System

• by Grant Fritchey

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• Editorial - MP3

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Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.

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2009-09-14

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Don't Build a Monitoring System

• by Grant Fritchey

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Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.

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2009-09-14

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Don't Build a Monitoring System

• by Grant Fritchey

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• Editorial - WMV

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Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.

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2009-09-14

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