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SQLServerCentral Webinar Series #6: Gathering and Interpreting Server Metrics including SQL Monitor

In this webinar, MVP and noted author, Grant Fritchey shows you how to better keep track of what is happening on your instances by gathering information on performance from SQL Monitor and then using that to interpret the impact on your databases. Dec 14, 2010.

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2010-12-14 (first published: )

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