http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged Monitoring posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Best way to monitor Excel, Access, SQL Linked Servers from SQL 2000http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Monitoring/63309/2008/07/11http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Monitoring/63309/Best way to monitor Excel, Access, SQL Linked Servers from SQL 2005http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Monitoring/63307/2008/07/10http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Monitoring/63307/An overview of how to collect data from TSQL into Operations Manager Performance Rules.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Operations+Manager/63041/2008/06/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Operations+Manager/63041/this select will show the last sql statement for every open session plus many helpfull information.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Monitoring/62467/2008/04/28http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Monitoring/62467/Cracking open the default management packs in SCOM unlock a vast code library for custom automation and monitoring of SQL Server instances. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SCOM/62369/2008/03/24http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SCOM/62369/An interesting tale of David Bird's fight with tempdb.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/61823/2008/03/17http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/61823/One DBA's tale of how to monitor jobs for failure and ensure that the DBA is alerted to the fact that there is a problem.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server+2005/61887/2008/02/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server+2005/61887/As a follow up to my first article “Monitoring on a Budget”, here’s how we present the fact data to management using Microsoft Excel.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/61594/2008/01/28http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/61594/Continuing on with his series on reporting for your SQL Server, David Bird brings together the series with the full package used for building the report.shttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Integration+Services/61774/2008/01/22http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Integration+Services/61774/In Part II of his series on monitoring SQL Servers, David Bird takes a look at importing data from your error logs.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Integration+Services/61714/2008/01/14http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Integration+Services/61714/Every extra byte of space you waste in your database causes a performance hit to your application. This article looks at disk space usage and how it affects performance.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/61833/2008/01/08http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/61833/Monitoring your SQL Server instances and figuring out what's going on is important to keep an eye on your environment. David Bird brings us a new series that looks at how you might start setting this up with Integration Services. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Integration+Services/61621/2008/01/07http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Integration+Services/61621/Have you ever been asked for information you couldn't provide because you didn't have an historical monitoring tool? Try thishttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/61373/2007/11/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/61373/SQL Server 2005's default trace is great for monitoring system information and for finding out what happened on your server after problems occur. However, there are times when the events that the default captures are not what you need. Here are instructions for how you can create your own trace files in TSQL to catch events on your database machine.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/61201/2007/10/08http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/61201/While SQL Server's Profiler is a great tool, it can be hard to work with and we can easily miss information in the results. New author Solomon Rutzky brings us a short article that can help you to better configure your traces to get the information you need. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/3201/2007/09/06http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/3201/Monitoring in the real world. Roy Carlson concludes his series on space monitoring for your SQL Servers with a real world example of how he found a problem and fixed it. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/2681/2006/11/09http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/2681/Trending the size data for your databases can be crucial when ordering new hardware or just ensuring that you can handle the load. In Part 3, Roy Carlson looks at how you get the sizes needed for your instances into Excel and generate a chart for trending of this important piece of performance data. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/2680/2006/11/08http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/2680/Continuing with his series on monitoring space, Roy Carlson looks at checking the space in a folder to be sure your SQL Server databases never run out of storage. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/2679/2006/11/07http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/2679/SQL Server will autogrow your databases as they run out of space. But the process doesn't manage space, nor does it check the free space on the drive. Allowing autogrow to grow unchecked and unmanaged will eventually use up all the free disk space and potentially crash your server. New author Mark Nash brings you his system for monitoring space usage and generating a report that eases this process. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/monitoringdriveanddatabasefreespace/1415/2006/08/25http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/monitoringdriveanddatabasefreespace/1415/In this series of articles, you will learn the basics of installing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 as well as how to use MOM to monitor SQL Server. This article takes advantage of virtualization. We will use VMware Workstation 5 to create the lab to introduce you to the basics of installing MOM to monitor SQL Server. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2228/2006/01/17http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2228/Part I of this article illustrated how to monitor CPU usage of running processes on a local machine or from a remote machine. This article illustrates how to monitor the CPU usage of different running processes on different machines and collect the information in a database.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2160/2005/11/17http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2160/SQL Server Profiler can correlate Microsoft Windows System Monitor (Performance Monitor in Windows NT 4.0) counters with SQL Server or SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SSAS) events. Windows System Monitor logs system activity for specified counters in performance logs. The first thing to remember is in order to have correlating information you need to obviously be in sync - in other words you must start the perfmon trace and profiler trace at the same time or else they won't match up.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2108/2005/10/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2108/Joe has a bunch of small, easy to use scripts that can definitely be the beginning of a great set of monitoring tool. Amazing how much info you can gather with a little bit of code! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sevenmonitoringscripts/1024/2005/05/13http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sevenmonitoringscripts/1024/Xp_sendmail is a great utility that SQL Server provides in order to e-mail messages directly from SQL Server, by using a valid MAPI profile. However, its syntax is rather stringent. In this article by Kunal Das, he shows you how to send messages to a list of recipients generated by a query dynamically in T-SQL. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/xp_sendmail/369/2005/02/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/xp_sendmail/369/SQL Server excels at quickly acquiring and releasing locks to allow as much concurrency as possible on the server. However there are times that one user will block another, which can be a source of great user frustration as well as making the system appear to be slow. Leo Peysakhovich brings us some great information and code on how you can monitor and deal with blocking on your SQL Server 2000 server. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/monitoringblocks/1709/2005/02/10http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/monitoringblocks/1709/Andrew Zanevsky shares his trace-scrubbing procedures that make it easy for you to handle large trace files and aggregate transactions by type–even when captured T-SQL code has variations. SQL Server Profiler is a veritable treasure trove when it comes to helping DBAs optimize their T-SQL code. But, the surfeit of riches (I'm reminded of the Arabian Nights tale of Aladdin) can be overwhelming. I recently had one of those "sinking" feelings when I first tried to make sense of the enormous amount of data collected by traces on a client's servers. At this particular client, the online transactions processing system executes more than 4 million database transactions per hour. That means that even a 30-minute trace that captures "SQL Batch Completed" events results in a table with 2 million rows. Of course, it's simply impractical to process so many records without some automation, and even selecting the longest or most expensive transactions doesn't necessarily help in identifying bottlenecks. After all, short transactions can be the culprits of poor performance when executed thousands of times per minute.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/1648/2005/01/11http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/1648/The system table, "sysperfinfo," is the representation of the internal performance counters of SQL Server. This article demonstrates how to retrieve and store information from "sysperfinfo" to a CSV file, so that it can be analyzed.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/1593/2004/11/30http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/1593/One of the biggest performance gains built into SQL Server is the stored procedure. In this article by Brian Kelley, he shows you how to fully utilize, debug and monitor the caching of such objects. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/procedurecache/591/2004/11/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/procedurecache/591/Auditing in SQL Server is something that is becoming more and more prevelant, and will likely become more regulated over time. Dinesh Asanka brings us a new article on the basics of SQL Servers most powerful auditing configuration, C2 level auditing. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/basicsofc2auditing/1547/2004/11/03http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/basicsofc2auditing/1547/Analyzing the data storage in SQL Server databases is a bit of an art. It's a skill that takes some time to develop given that the tools are rather limited. DBCC SHOWCONTIG is one of the few ways in which you can get some insight into how SQL Server has structured your table on the disk. Joe Sack brings us another of his top xxx techniques with his ten queries that you can use to analyze the results of this command. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/analyzingdatastoragetenshowcontigqueries/1438/2004/08/16http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/analyzingdatastoragetenshowcontigqueries/1438/