CavyPrincess (12/2/2010)
Thanks for the great article. I create a baseline performance measure every so often on my servers, and this will simplify the process. I'm currently placing the output directly into the database via an ODBC connection. I'm sure I can change the script samples to do this, but just wondering if I should be doing this. Does it matter?Thanks,
Cindy
Writing to file is much, much faster than writing to a database, so yes, it does make a difference. Also, is that database on the same server you're monitoring? That can be a problem, adding overhead where none should exist.
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