Monitor Any Linked Server From SQL 2005
Best way to monitor Excel, Access, SQL Linked Servers from SQL 2005
2011-12-19 (first published: 2008-06-03)
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Monitoring
Who did what?
This select will show the last sql statement for every open session plus many helpfull information.
2012-01-13 (first published: 2008-03-04)
4,251 reads
Monitoring on a Budget - Part 2
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.
2008-01-28
5,532 reads
Disk Space Usage and SQL Server Performance
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.
2008-01-08
7,011 reads
Monitoring on a Budget
Have you ever been asked for information you couldn't provide because you didn't have an historical monitoring tool? Try this
2007-11-19
9,203 reads
Capturing Missing Information From SQL Profiler
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.
2007-09-06
10,340 reads
SQL Server and MOM 2005
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.
2006-01-17
3,401 reads
Monitor CPU Usage of All Running Processes - Part II
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.
2005-11-17
4,538 reads
The Steps to monitoring greatness
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.
2005-10-19
2,508 reads
Monitoring Blocks
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.
2005-02-10
17,054 reads
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