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GreyBeard

Posted Tuesday, February 07, 2012 10:28 PM

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Dirk.Hondong

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2012 1:38 AM

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Hey Ron,

first of all: thanks for your article.
Only one little thing. The pdf you´ve mentioned (SQL Server Instance Health Monitoring Tool) cannot be opened.
I get a message from Adobe Reader that the file does not start with "%-PDF"

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jose.g.korndorffer

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2012 3:33 AM

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Hi,

nice article and I must say that you are right about performance transparency. In the past I've created WMI providers to feed SCOM and automatize the gathering of such information.

Congrats on your article,

Gerardo Korndorffer

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RichB

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:07 AM

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Slight weakness for mount points rather than explicit drive letters though.

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Ajay Prakash

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:43 AM

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Very nice article and great output. Just a suggestion
In your script, to caluculate uptime (for variable @vOnline_Since), it might be better to use 'tempdb' instead of 'perfstat' database in the WHERE clause because tempdb gets created everytime SQL Server Service gets started, and therefore you can rely on this for SQL Server uptime.

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Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2012 10:39 AM

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Great! To subscribe to universal opinion.
Thanks

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Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2012 10:50 AM

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Doesn't work with Clustered instances. Or with default instances

SET @instanceName = CONVERT (VARCHAR,SERVERPROPERTY ('ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS')) + '\' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName'))

Will return Null for a default instance and NULL out @instanceName
It will also return the physical node the SQL instance is running on in a cluster, which is not the name on the network to connect to.

Sadly this works better for clustered default instances

SET @instanceName = @@SERVERNAME + ISNULL('\' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName')),'')

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Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2012 11:07 PM

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Mark Catoe

Posted Friday, February 10, 2012 2:14 PM

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I would like to get some information (windows service) on how to post the output to a web server and into a particular folder if possible. Thank you for Performance Transparency advice.

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Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2012 8:08 AM

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Modified this script a bit,
1)
to give the correct information on the sql server up time in two variable mentioned in script.
So in variable "@vOnline_Since" OR "OnlineSince" you will get the result in datetime as when the SQL was last came online.
and
"@vUptime_Days" OR "UptimeDays" is again based on the same calculation but tells the stamina of the server as since when its running BigGrin

2) You will get problem in bcp syntax if folder "c:\dbahtml\" doesn't exist. So either create the folder structure first or modify the value to C:, as I did in my below syntax

ok, here is the script :-

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#TEMPhtml2') IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
   DROP TABLE #TEMPhtml2
END

CREATE TABLE #TEMPhtml2
(
       [columns] VARCHAR (MAX)
)

DECLARE @finalhtmlout VARCHAR(MAX)
DECLARE @columns VARCHAR(8000)
DECLARE @colHeader VARCHAR(8000)
DECLARE @Final VARCHAR(8000)
DECLARE @clientName VARCHAR(50)
DECLARE @instanceName VARCHAR(50)
DECLARE @col VARCHAR(MAX)

/******************************************************************************************/
/*  DEBUG OUTPUT CONTROL    */
DECLARE @DEBUG SMALLINT = 0  --> 0 == OFF  1 == VERBOSE   2 == FINAL HTML ONLY
/******************************************************************************************/

/******************************************************************************************/
/* CLIENT NAME    */
SET @clientName = 'Test Client'
/******************************************************************************************/
SET @instanceName = CONVERT (VARCHAR,SERVERPROPERTY ('ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS')) + '\' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName'))

--initialize HTML page
SET @finalhtmlout = ' <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <body> '
SET @finalhtmlout = @finalhtmlout + '<h1>' + @clientName + '</h1>' + '<h2>SQL Server Performance Snapshot</h2>'
SET @finalhtmlout = @finalhtmlout + '<h3>'+ CONVERT(VARCHAR,GETDATE(),100) + '</h3><br />'
/*********************************************************************************************/
--get General Info
--dump contents of the temp table
TRUNCATE TABLE #TEMPhtml2
--drop the temp table for this data if it already exists
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#DBA_GenInfo') IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
   DROP TABLE #DBA_GenInfo
END
--create the temp table for this data
CREATE TABLE #DBA_GenInfo
(
NetbiosName VARCHAR(50),
SERVERNAME VARCHAR(50),
Edition VARCHAR(50),
[VERSION] VARCHAR(50),
[LEVEL] VARCHAR(50),
OnlineSince VARCHAR(50),
UptimeDays VARCHAR(9)
)
--declare any variables needed for data collection
DECLARE @vDate_Now AS DATETIME
DECLARE @vOnline_Since AS VARCHAR (19)
DECLARE @vUptime_Days AS INT
DECLARE @vDate_24_Hours_Ago AS DATETIME

--insert the data into the temp table defined above
SELECT
        @vOnline_Since = CONVERT (NVARCHAR (19), sqlserver_start_time, 120)
       ,@vUptime_Days = DATEDIFF(day,sqlserver_start_time,getdate())
FROM
        sys.dm_os_sys_info  DB


SET @vDate_24_Hours_Ago = GETDATE ()-1
SET @vDate_Now = @vDate_24_Hours_Ago+1
INSERT INTO #DBA_GenInfo
SELECT
        CONVERT (VARCHAR,SERVERPROPERTY ('ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS'))
       ,CONVERT (VARCHAR,@@SERVERNAME)
       ,REPLACE (CONVERT (VARCHAR, SERVERPROPERTY ('Edition')),' Edition','')
       ,CONVERT (VARCHAR,SERVERPROPERTY ('ProductVersion'))
       ,CONVERT (VARCHAR,SERVERPROPERTY ('ProductLevel'))
       ,CONVERT (VARCHAR,@vOnline_Since)
       ,CONVERT (VARCHAR,REVERSE (SUBSTRING (REVERSE (CONVERT (VARCHAR (15), CONVERT (MONEY, @vUptime_Days), 1)), 4, 15)))

IF @DEBUG = 1
BEGIN
       SELECT * FROM #DBA_GenInfo
END

--get the column names and store them in @columns
SELECT @columns = COALESCE(@columns + ' + '' </td><td> '' + ', '') +
                             'convert(varchar(100),isnull(' + c.name +','' ''))'
FROM tempdb.sys.columns c
INNER JOIN tempdb.sys.tables t ON c.object_id = t.object_id
WHERE t.name LIKE '#DBA_GenInfo%'

IF @DEBUG = 1
BEGIN
       SELECT @columns AS [columns]
END

--Setup the html column header
SET @colHeader = '<tr bgcolor=#EDFEDF align=center> <TR><TH><H3>
Server / Instance Information</H3></TH></TR>'
SELECT @colHeader = @colHeader + '<td><b> ' + c.name + '</b></td>'
FROM tempdb.sys.columns c
INNER JOIN tempdb.sys.tables t ON c.object_id = t.object_id
WHERE t.name LIKE '#DBA_GenInfo%'

SET @colHeader=@colHeader + '</tr>'

IF @DEBUG = 1
BEGIN
       SELECT @colHeader AS [columnHeader]
END

--get the data selection and insertion statements ready
SET @Final = 'insert into #TEMPhtml2 Select ''<tr><td>'' + ' + @columns + '+ ''</td></tr> '' from #DBA_GenInfo '

IF @DEBUG = 1
BEGIN
       SELECT @final AS FINAL
END

--execute the select
EXECUTE( @Final )

IF @DEBUG = 1
BEGIN
       SELECT @colHeader AS COLHEADER
       SELECT * FROM #TEMPhtml2 AS TEMPHTML2
END
--initialize the HTML table
SET @finalhtmlout = @finalhtmlout + ' <style type="text/css" media="all">  table { margin-bottom: 2em; border-collapse: collapse } td,th {border= 1 solid #999; padding: 0.2em 0.2em; font-size: 12;} </style> <table width="100%"> ' + @colHeader

IF @DEBUG = 1
BEGIN
       SELECT @finalhtmlout AS HTMLoutput1
END
-- insert values for retrieved metric in HTML format
SET @col = NULL
DECLARE HTML_Cur CURSOR
FOR SELECT [columns] FROM #TEMPhtml2
OPEN HTML_Cur
FETCH NEXT FROM HTML_Cur
INTO @col

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
       SET @finalhtmlout= @finalhtmlout + @col + '</td></tr>'
       FETCH NEXT FROM HTML_Cur
       INTO @col
END

CLOSE HTML_Cur
DEALLOCATE HTML_Cur
-- clean up locals
DROP TABLE #DBA_GenInfo
SET @columns = NULL
SET @colHeader = NULL
SET @Final = NULL
/***********************************************************************************************/
-- get io stats
--dump contents of the temp table
TRUNCATE TABLE #TEMPhtml2

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#DBA_PLEStats') IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
   DROP TABLE #DBA_IOStats
END

--get IO stats and generate HTML for data
CREATE TABLE #DBA_IOStats
(
[Fname] VARCHAR(25),
[Platter] VARCHAR(5),
[Database_Name] VARCHAR(75),
[Avg_IO_Stall_ms] VARCHAR(15),
[Number_of_Reads] VARCHAR(15),
[Number_of_Writes] VARCHAR(15),
[Number_of_Bytes_Read] VARCHAR(15),
[Number_of_Bytes_Written] VARCHAR(15),
[Total_IO_Stall] VARCHAR(15),
[Total_IO] VARCHAR(15)
)
    
DECLARE @TotalIO BIGINT ,
    @TotalBytes BIGINT ,
    @TotalStall BIGINT
 
SELECT  @TotalIO = SUM(num_of_reads + num_of_writes) ,
        @TotalBytes = SUM(num_of_bytes_read + num_of_bytes_written) ,
        @TotalStall = SUM(io_stall)
FROM    sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats(-1, -1)

INSERT INTO #DBA_IOStats ([Fname],[Platter],[Database_Name],[Avg_IO_Stall_ms],[Number_of_Reads],
[Number_of_Writes],[Number_of_Bytes_Read],[Number_of_Bytes_Written],[Total_IO_Stall],[Total_IO])

SELECT  LOWER(SUBSTRING(physical_name, LEN(physical_name) - 2, 4)) ,
        UPPER(SUBSTRING(physical_name, 1, 3))  ,
        [DbName] = DB_NAME([f].[database_id]) ,
        CAST(( io_stall_read_ms + io_stall_write_ms ) / ( 1.0 + num_of_reads
                                                          + num_of_writes ) AS NUMERIC(10,
                                                              1)) ,
        [num_of_reads] ,
        [num_of_writes] ,
        [num_of_bytes_read] ,
        [num_of_bytes_written] ,
        [io_stall] ,
        [TotalIO] = ( num_of_reads + num_of_writes )
        FROM    sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats(-1, -1) [IO]
        INNER JOIN sys.master_files f ON [IO].database_id = f.database_id
                                         AND [IO].[file_id] = f.[file_id]

IF @DEBUG = 1
BEGIN
       SELECT * FROM #DBA_IOStats
END

------Prepare column statement
SELECT @columns = COALESCE(@columns + ' + '' </td><td> '' + ', '') +
                             'convert(varchar(100),isnull(' + c.name +','' ''))'
FROM tempdb.sys.columns c
INNER JOIN tempdb.sys.tables t ON c.object_id = t.object_id
WHERE t.name LIKE '#DBA_IOStats%'

IF @DEBUG = 1
BEGIN
       SELECT @columns AS [columns]
END
----Prepare column Header
SET @colHeader = '<tr bgcolor=#EDFEDF align=center> <TR><TH><H3>
File IO Statistics</H3></TH></TR>'
SELECT @colHeader = @colHeader + '<td><b> ' + c.name + '</b></td>'
FROM tempdb.sys.columns c
INNER JOIN tempdb.sys.tables t ON c.object_id = t.object_id
WHERE t.name LIKE '#DBA_IOStats%'

SET @colHeader=@colHeader + '</tr>'

IF @DEBUG = 1
BEGIN
       SELECT @colHeader AS [columnHeader]
END
------prepare final output
SET @Final = 'insert into #TEMPhtml2 Select ''<tr><td>'' + ' + @columns + '+ ''</td></tr> '' from #DBA_IOStats '

IF @DEBUG = 1
BEGIN
       SELECT @final AS FINAL
END

EXECUTE( @Final )

IF @DEBUG = 1
BEGIN
       SELECT @colHeader AS COLHEADER
       SELECT * FROM #TEMPhtml2 AS TEMPHTML2
END

--initialize table
SET @finalhtmlout = @finalhtmlout + ' <style type="text/css" media="all">  table { margin-bottom: 2em; border-collapse: collapse } td,th {border= 1 solid #999; padding: 0.2em 0.2em; font-size: 12;} </style> <table width="100%"> ' + @colHeader

IF @DEBUG = 1
BEGIN
       SELECT @finalhtmlout AS HTMLoutput1
END

-- insert values for retrieved metric in HTML format
SET @col=NULL
DECLARE HTML_Cur CURSOR
FOR SELECT [columns] FROM #TEMPhtml2

OPEN HTML_Cur
FETCH NEXT FROM HTML_Cur
INTO @col

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
       SET @finalhtmlout= @finalhtmlout + @col + '</td></tr>'
       FETCH NEXT FROM HTML_Cur
       INTO @col
END

CLOSE HTML_Cur
DEALLOCATE HTML_Cur
-- clean up locals
DROP TABLE #DBA_IOStats
SET @columns = NULL
SET @colHeader = NULL
SET @Final = NULL
/**********************************************************************************************/
-- closes the HTML file
SET @finalhtmlout= @finalhtmlout + ' </table></body></htmL>'

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..##tempOut') IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
   DROP TABLE ##tempOut
END

CREATE TABLE ##tempOut
(
       html VARCHAR(MAX)
)

INSERT INTO ##tempOut
SELECT @finalhtmlout
-- write html file to disk
DECLARE @filename VARCHAR(75)

/******************************************************************************************/
/*  File Name    */
SET @filename = 'c:\'
/******************************************************************************************/
SET @filename = @filename + CONVERT(VARCHAR,SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName')) + '_' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,GETDATE(),112) + '.html'
print 'filename is :-'+@filename
DECLARE @string AS NVARCHAR(4000)
SELECT    @string = 'bcp ##tempOut  out ' + @filename + ' -T -c -S  ' + @instanceName
print 'string is :-'+@string

EXEC master.dbo.xp_cmdshell @string -- , no_output

IF @DEBUG >= 1
BEGIN
       SELECT @string AS [BCP command]
       SELECT @filename AS [FileName]
       SELECT @finalhtmlout AS [Final HTML OUTPUT]
END

DROP TABLE ##tempOut

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Ashish

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