InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comMon, 20 May 2013 08:32:33 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic955718-360-1.aspxThanks Tara, and there just happens to be an article on using powershell to capture perfmon statistics in one of my emails this morning: http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/gathering-perfmon-data-with-powershell/?utm_source=simpletalk&utm_medium=email-main&utm_content=Perfmon-20100712&utm_campaign=SQLWed, 21 Jul 2010 07:25:46 GMTjrc172http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic955718-360-1.aspxI totally agree. I should have said this is an OLTP system, not OLAP. Queue length and system waits are great performance metrics, but I'm looking for workload metrics. Different but not totaly opposite.Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:24:30 GMTjrc172http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic955718-360-1.aspxIt really kind of depends on your business and your systems. For example, I work for an insurance company. We don't do umpty-gazillion transactions per/second, so measuring just transactions per second wouldn't supply us with much information. Instead, more often than not, we look at query execution time. But even that is not enough of a measure. Instead of finding a single number and deciding that's your point of entry, I'd suggest just a few measures. Base everything on waits and queues. Disk Queue Length, Processor Queue Length and various system waits. Gather those metrics and you'll have a good idea of the performance of the system. Anything else is just a symptom. Transactions/sec went down... why? We have an increased disk queue length. Uh, oh, IO issues. See what I mean?Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:10:56 GMTGrant Fritcheyhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic955718-360-1.aspxWe use batch requests per second in PerfMon. On our busiest system, we have 1500-3000 batches per second occurring 24/7.Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:03:57 GMTTara Kizerhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic955718-360-1.aspxI'm trying to get a handle on what constitutes a measure of work (to calculate comparative "workloads") in the SQLServer environment. The answer "all of them" is probably neither usable nor correct. How about transactions/sec (from dmv sys.dm_os_performance_counters)?Others ... ?Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:56:11 GMTjrc172