I'm fairly new to the DBA thing.
I've been doing quite a bit of research on monitoring MSSQL performance.
What tools are you guys using?
PerfMon, Dbartisan, Spotlight, or what?
I'd like to find some free or affordable way to watch our Servers to check health/performance/etc.
Hi,
I'm looking for tool that will help me to monitor and analyze SQL server performance including SQL activities and server activities(cpu, memory usage) as well.
I appriciate any feedback,
Thank you,
Yelena
guys...do you have any recommendations for a tool that compares specific MS sql databases including data comparisons?
I typically develop locally, then deploy remotely.
it's getting to be quite a pain to not only remember which schema objects to update on the remote host, but the data elements that need to be keyed in as well.
are there any shareware tools out there you'd recommend? (I don't have a great budget as this is coming out of MY pocket and not my companies.)
THanks!
We are in plan to build a Monitoring tool using PowerShell and Performance Monitor which could monitor 10 to 20 servers. Do you have any reference of any existing tool using Performance Monitor to monitor the SQL Server and available for free? I didn't want to put some effort, if something is available already.
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I'm looking into the possibility of buying (as I doubt there's any good free options) a SQL Server Monitoring tool.
Has anyone got any particular recommendations - good or bad? I know a little about Spotlight, but not much else.
Thanks in advance.
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zinedunc
Hi,
We are evaluating proactive monitoring tools for our heterogeneous database environment, currently comprising of Sybase and MS SQL Server.
Our current options are Bradmark Surveillance, Quest Foglight/Spotlight, MOM (SQL Server only) & Embarcadero Performance Center.
Are there any recommended tools from your experience? Or any tools with with you have had bad experience?
Tia.
All, I seek your knowldege. I am looking for a monitoring tool thathas the abilility to page and email me should something go wrong withSQL server. I know of two such tools: 1.) BMC Patrol, and 2.) Quest'sFoglight. I was hoping that some of you have had some experience withother such tools. Let me know please.Louis
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to know if there are any tools that will allow
a DBA to monitor changes that occur on SQL databases
(deletion, addittion or modifications) on any objects,
and Sql security.
I have looked at Profiler in SQL and it is very limited
and plus it is huge memory hog and causes degradation on
your servers.
We've got about fifty MSSQL Servers (7.0 and 2000) in our shop.
Can anybody recommend a good tool to monitor all kind of activities and conditions on those servers?
Hi, gurus:
Please tell me some third parts monitoring tools for MS SQL server 2000.
I have been using the built-in tools of SQL Server (email and netsend) to monitor and alert me about some basic issues (like severity errors and job failures) with our SQL servers. We are now approaching a level and number of servers where I think we need to get a more global and more stable solution to monitoring and alerting.
So what third party tools are you are using to monitor your SQL Servers?
Thanks
SJ
shawn.johnson@kenexa.com
I want to integrate my Production SQL boxes to Visual Source safe.
Can you please guide me on this also if there is any Alternative to
track the chnages in the stored Procs?
How is SQL SPOT LIGHT from Quest as a monitoring tools?.
Or
Can you please suggest me any other tools which are good for monitoring SQL Servers.
Thx
Venu
is there a tool or vb.net code for monitoring who is accessing my sql 2005 express databases? username, computer name, etc.?
View 5 Replies View RelatedHave audit requirements that require that all schema changes to certain database are tracked and monitored. Any tools that can monitor these changes and log them for audit review?
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I am new to sql server and sould like to know how I can monitor the server performance on sql servers 6.5 and 7. In sybase we can run sp_sysmon. Is there anything similar to this for sql server.
Thanks.
Hi
I am learning SQL SERVER ..Can anyone tell me how do I tune a given stored procedure in 6.5 and 7.0.?
In performance tunning which counters are really necessary to watch and the remedies to be taken?
Thanks
Reddy
Does anyone know of a way to determine which SPs or which tables are being accessed the most heavily or often from an application? I have inherited a site that is heavily used, but poorly tuned. However we have distributed C/S apps that hit the server and do not contain debug code. In addition, the SPs are encrypted and I do not want to replace them in the short term with new SPs that log hits.
I realize I can use triggers, but is there any other method?
Hi,
I want to collect performance measures regarding the import of data
and the growth of resulting extract_tables.
I use - say - 15 tables from a erp-system (like JDE Edwards)
to build a -say - sales-warehouse and a MS-OLAP-cube.
For every incoming table I got a dts-package witch is
protocolled into msdb.sysdtspackagelog.
Every package got the name
[Build]_[Subsystem]_[Table_name]
e.g. JDEdwards_Sales_F0005
The destination table is namend e.g. extr_F0005
Now:
With a seperate DTS-package I transport the
records from msdb-db into my build-db
- say - JDEdwardsExtract.
Name: extr_performance_monitor
(eventually filter on buildname, because there are several builds in
my system)
So this result is quit good and easy to handle for
seeing elapsed time per day.
But the dtslog won't tell me, how many records the dtspackage
had to copy.(and there is one at least with no records (Cubeupdate))
Now the count(*) comes in.
In the dts-package
sys...log ---- to --- extr_performance_monitor
I added the columns
extr_table_name,
extr_table_rowcount,
extr_table_timestamp.
With
select name, 'extr_' + replace(name, '[Build]_[Subsystem]','') as
extr_table_name from extr_performance_monitor
I cut the original dts packagename down to the extr_.. name.
But I don't have a clue how to solve the count(*)
Example:
dts_package_name,.... , extr_table_name,extr_table_rowcount, extr_table_timestamp
[Build]_[SS]_[F0005], ..., extr_F0005, 0, sysdate.
I think about a package wich is running after the last
data_import (and cube_refresh) is done.
(but the same day)
So the result could be:
Table_name (as dimension category)
Time to perform
Number of records in import table
Records per second.
The next step could be to look for required space.
The result should be a grafik - say - over 12 month
were you can easily see the amount of data performend
time consumend, (table space used),
and - very important -
you could extrapolate your hardware requirements.
Looking forward for any hints.
Thanks in advance.
Michael
My SQL Server 2000 system is pegged. Disk activity is maxed out and system is very unresponsive. Several people have database tasks running through this system and I'm pretty sure there is a single application that is the culprit and I'd like to identify which one.
Does anyone have any practical tips on using "Process Info" in Enterprise Manager? What units are CPU and Physical I/O displayed in? Why does the column sort on these fields not work as expected?
Do I just pick the process with the largest Physical I/O and assume that's the problem?
I was wondering if the CPU is the bottleneck. Hence I used the PerformanceMonitor to look up some values. Here are the results.Counter Scale Average MaximumMinimum%Disk Time 1 2.74 24.9320Current Disk Queue Length 10 0.090 6 0Buffer cache hit ratio 1 99.752 99.75299.751%Processor Time (Total) 1 2.307 9.6880.313%Processor Time (sqlserv) 1 1.218 7.188 0Processor Queue Length 10 6.960 11 5The thing that puzzles me is that the Processor Time is quite low but theProcessor Queue Length is very high. Why is the processor processes queuingup when the processor not bogged down ? I would assume both values to be onthe high side. Is the high buffer hit ratio an indicator that the CPU iswaiting for some reads from the buffer before processing the next process?The users often run reports on historical data. That might be the reason forthe high buffer hit rates.Am I monitoring the wrong values ?Any advise would be very much appreciated and thanks in advance.Pit
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In performance monitor, Add Counters interface, it is pointed to the local SQL server as default.
Probably a kind of 'stu..' question. When I typied a remote sql server name in the "select counters from computer dropdown listbox", which is in my E.M. registered already, I got the error of "Unable To Connect To the Machine".
thanks
David
I am looking for a good solution for monitoring the performance on my SQL Server. I've used Performance Monitor but think there are better solutions out there. Specifically, I'd like to run the app on my desktop to monitor the server remotely. I'd like the app to run constantly and notify me if anything weird starts to happen.
I'm looking at i3 for SQL Server by Veritas as an option, but it's gonna cost ~$2k.
Anybody have comments, suggestions with the Veritas product or any other packages out there you would recommend.
Thanks,
Alex
Running our software on many client sites.
Application:
1) using a 4gl language
2) uses ntwdblib.dll
Client MSSQL Servers:
1) varies from site to site on average dual core, 4GB, 20-100GB HD
2) MSSQL 2000 sp3-4, 2005 sp1-2
A handfull of our clients have complained about how slow things seem to be working. So after getting online with the customer and doing some investigating/testing, I have found that 'slow' is not the word to use. We are talking about snails pace. Now this same software at our other mssql sites doesnt seem to have any problems. very good performance numbers. Some of our customers with single cpu, 2GB, 10GB HD have better performance than a couple of our 4 cpu, 16GB, 2 - 20GB HD systems.
we have written a simple test program that we run on these slow sites that individually (useing local drives/files) are comparable to our faster sites. We then run the test program against the MSSQL database/tables. On the servers the run times are about the same. However, when we run it on a workstation the results go off the scale. At our good sites, the test time is around 10 minutes, on our bad sites the test time is around 1 HR 30 minutes.
Now i know this sounds like a network issue, but one of these slow sites had someone come out and check the network traffic/packets/routers/switches. then we paid to send that person to one of our faster sites to test their network. The results were that our slower client had a faster network. Our slower client uses CISCO smart switches/hubs/router.
Now for my question, does anyone know of or could recommend something that i could use to determine what is happening between the server and workstation on these slow sites.
Is there a problem with CISCO equipment and MSSQL 2005, NTWDBLIB.DLL. I am looking for anything here.
We have a shared SQL 2005 instance and we have concerns about performance.
What tools would you suggest to monitor performance of a SQL server database? Would you use perf-mon? If so which monitors give you the best results?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
I have SQL 7 running on an Active/Passive Cluster configuration. My problem is that I can not see any
SQL objects listed on perfmon.
Can this be because of the Cluster configuration? I trying to run perfmon directly from the main system console.
Thanks,
Randy
Does SQL Compact Edition expose performance counters to tools like Perfmon as SQL Server does? For instance, can you view lock wait times, cache hit ratio, etc.?
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I'm using Visual Web Developer Express and Management Studio Express, and my web site is on a shared web host´, running SqlServer2000. I'm looking for software that enables me to monitor the server, but is it possible? The only apps I've found (and downloaded and installed and unistalled) so far need administrative rights to the server so they won't work on a shared web host.
All help would be welcome!
Thanks in advance,
Pettrer
Hi guys , may I know is there any examples of store procedure/scripts for monitoring replication status and performance ? I just know about sp_replmonitorhelppublisher. Thx for the assistance.
From,
Hans
Know any good performance monitoring and analysis tools for SQL server.
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I'm working on a conversion project and I'm trying to compare performance of SSIS with Other ETL Tools, especially Informatica PowerCenter. Which one do you think is better ETL performer, when source and destination being SQL Server databases. Is there any benchmark available?
Thanks.
Hi
I need to analyse row chaining, tablespaces, cpu and io issues in sql server 2000.
Can someone please help me in this?
Are there any commands to do this ?
Thanks
madhukar
What are your favorite Forum sites?
SQLTeam.com
SQLSERVERCENTRAL.com
TekTips.com
MSDNSQL Forum
forums.sqlmag.com
I hate to ask for information such as this but with the low response to my questions I was wondering anyone knows of a better site for SQL Server database mail issues?
Thanks,
Thom
If I'm on a remote machine, meaning a computer not in the WSFC cluster, and I open SSMS 2014, point it to a SQL Instance, and open activity monitor:
1. I get all the panes and charts except % Processor Time.
2. Then, if I authenticate to the cluster's domain by mapping a drive with valid domain credentials, I'm free to put performance counters in the Perfmon - - - but SQL Activity Monitor shuts down with“The Activity Monitor is unable to execute queries against server SQL-V01INSTANCE1..Activity monitor for this instance will be placed into a paused state.Use the context menu in the overview pane to resume the activity monitor.
Additional information: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))(Mscorlib)”
3. Of course, the Activity monitor can't be resumed via the context menu. Removing counters and closing the perfmon do not work. I dropped the mapped drive and rebooted the machine. That brought back 95% of the information in the Activity monitor.
4. Further experimentation showed that any mapping of drive shares present on the SQL Server to the computer running SSMS cut off functionality of the 'overview' pane in the remote machine's SQL Activity monitor -- the monitor that had been trying to watch the server offering the shares.