The best way to monitor this in 2012 would be using Extended Events. However, it does require that you set it up and maintain it. There's nothing automatic that does...

Also, you have to have a way of identifying the user. This means one of three options. One, everyone has an independent login on the database. Two, everyone is using...

So, collective wait stats, everything since the dawn of time, are somewhat interesting, but not terribly useful really. They will tell you where the principal waits are on your system...

Oh, and since everyone and their brother will shortly be correcting me, saying that they're uncommitted isn't strictly speaking true. They were committed, but are not yet transmitted, hence they're...

Has the Availability group processed the changes between the databases (Primary to secondary) when you do the backup? It's going to retain changes as uncommitted until they go through the...

Some of the magic phrases you want to use when talking to the business about something like this (and it is absolutely a business question, not a technical one) are...

You've pretty much described standard behavior for PLE. It's one of the reasons why it's not a great measure for performance. I'd focus on other counters, especially wait statistics and...

Without seeing the wait statistics on the server, blocked process reports, etc., it's hard to say for certain why one is behaving differently than the other. It's pretty likely that...

Don't do it.

Upgrading to SQL Server 2014 means making the leap to the new cardinality estimation engine (a very good thing, most of the time). If you hit...