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
I 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?
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?
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.
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,
Have 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?
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.
The installation SQL 2008 R2 Management Tools on a Windows 7 workstation fails with the error, The specified account already exists.
Final result:Â SQL Server installation failed. To continue, investigate the reason for the failure, correct the problem, uninstall SQL Server, and then rerun SQL Server Setup.
 Exit code (Decimal):          -2068052700  Exit facility code:           1212  Exit error code:              1316  [code]...
I am running SQL Server 2005 x64 Enterprise under Windows 2003 x64 Enterprise. My current backup strategy uses T-SQL jobs run by SQL Agent (writes out *.bak files) and then I have an Integration Services job that copies the *.bak files to our NAS device. I have performed a restore without issue. The jobs are all automated every four hours via SQL Agent. Is this a sound strategy or are there additional benefits to using 3rd party tools? If so, what are the advantages and which tool provides them?
Login failed for user 'TOSHIBA-USERASPNET' I know that the file persmission for the web application have to include aspnet, so i keep resetting the folder permission for aspnet in file manager, but the login failed keeps coming back every day or two problem is after working with VS05 Pro, SQL Server Management Studio CTP, somehow the aspnet persmission get changed, use alot of sqldatasource wizards and often there is a conflict/hang between the datasource wizard and the need to have the mdf in a dettached state within VS server explorer, not sure but the procedure to fix this seems to be to reboot, detach and re-attach the mdf in the Sql server Studio tool, re-apply the aspnet file permission on the web app folders (wonder should i be doing this in IIS instead), make sure the mdf within server explorer is detached, the it works anyway, getting real tired of the resulting delays and design time derailment, clues greatly appreciated, thanks sometimes i can use View in Browser when in VS05 form view and i wont get the aspnet folder permission error and other times i do. last thing, is it a bad idea to give aspnet full permission for the entire web applicaiton??
Is there - apart from the notorious RESTORE HEADERONLY - an tool which is able to tell which SQL Server version created a specific BAK file? I'm looking for a tool that can be used w/o an available/running SQL Server installation.
Alternatively, is there any documentation about what is read with RESTORE HEADERONLY so I could write a tool myself?
Where would I find the version "bytes" in a BAK file?
I understand the rule of thumb that the CPU should not be over 90%. If you take the four counters (%processor time,%privileged time, %user time, %interrupt time, and interrupt seconds), what combination gives you your CPU time ?
I have been asked to monitor SQL to tell me when we are performingbetter than others. Can anyone tell me what kinds of scheduled jobs orscripts they utilize?
Hi ,Is there a way/tool in Sql Server 2000 SP3 tomonitor all activities going on in the Database ?For example, I first create an empty database.Then I have an ERWIN generated DDL to createall views and tables. After that, I have INSERTscripts that populate all the base tables. What Iwant to monitor is success or failure for eachscript.Thanks,N.
Hi, I have implemented health monitoring for my web-site, using the SQL provider. Health monitoring works fine when the website is run from VS2005, using the built in web server, all the expected events are inserted into the aspnet database. However when I deploy the site onto IIS, no events are ever inserted into the database. I would appreciate some help figuring out why this is happening! The code that implements the health monitoring in my web.config file is:1 <healthMonitoring 2 enabled="true" 3 heartbeatInterval="0"> 4 <bufferModes> 5 6 <remove name="Analysis"/> 7 8 <add name="Analysis" 9 maxBufferSize="10" 10 maxFlushSize="2" 11 urgentFlushThreshold="2" 12 regularFlushInterval="00:00:02" 13 urgentFlushInterval="00:00:01" 14 maxBufferThreads="1"/> 15 16 </bufferModes> 17 18 <providers> 19 20 <remove name ="SqlWebEventProvider"/> 21 22 <add name="SqlWebEventProvider" type="System.Web.Management.SqlWebEventProvider, 23 System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" 24 25 connectionStringName="SQL_ASPNET" 26 maxEventDetailsLength="1073741823" 27 buffer="true" 28 bufferMode="Analysis" 29 30 /> 31 32 </providers> 33 34 <eventMappings> 35 36 <remove name ="All Events"/> 37 <add name="All Events" 38 type="System.Web.Management.WebBaseEvent, System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"/> 39 40 </eventMappings> 41 42 <profiles> 43 44 <remove name="Default"/> 45 <add name="Default" 46 minInstances="1" 47 maxLimit="Infinite" 48 minInterval="00:10:00" 49 /> 50 </profiles> 51 52 <rules> 53 54 <add name="All Events" 55 eventName="All Events" 56 provider="SqlWebEventProvider" 57 profile="Default" 58 minInterval="00:00:01" 59 minInstances="1" /> 60 61 </rules> 62 63 </healthMonitoring> 64
Can anyone show me in SQL7 how to obtain Available Space on a particular filegroup in a database (not the database or datafile). I am trying to include this in a script to monitor my database which uses Filegroups and I have every other info that I need (from the sysfiles table) except the available space. Thanks in advance!
I do all my monitoring locally for disk space, locks, blocking, I've 10 production servers, We need to centralised the monitoring server so from one server all the monitors can be done. Does anyone has any ideas how memory, cpus consumption, disk space, all alerts, locks, blocking, log space and job completition monitoring can be handled.
In Sql 7 What is the easiest way to monitor the number of connections? I have been asked to create a report that monitors the number of logins every hour.
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.
Folks! Is it possible to monitor several SQL servers in one window and notify operator about error messages. May be some new software can make it possible? Thank you.
Can anybody help me with the following on my MS SQL Server 2000 database.
1. All tables should have a lastModificationDate column. Any changes and inserts should have the system time updated with a trigger or so. We shouldn’t be inserting the value using SQL statements into this column.
2. There shouldn’t be any deletes on the table. Any deleted records should be marked as inactive or deleted, so it won’t come in queries, but should be physically present in the tables.
3. A modification log table, which will carry the table name, the column identifier, user modified, old value and the timestamp.