Greetings All, I was hoping that some of you might be aware of any
free scripts that were written explicitly for the purpose of
monitoring a SQL Server database. I want to be able to determine
up/down events, Error Log updates, Long running Transactions,
Deadlocks, etc. My plan is to use a central SQL Server database as a
repository that will query (via t-sql) the target SQL Server boxes for
the events listed above. If one of the events falls outside of a
defined range I will use xp_sendmail to alert me via my pager. I have
been looking at third party tools like BMC Patrol, Quest Foglight, and
Embarcadero Performance Center and although they are very nice they
are also very EXPENSIVE. I am looing for a cheap solution. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
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.
I set up a new mirror server. Everything is good except that the Database Mirroring Monitor is not working for one of the databases. In the monitor the principal data is showing up as blank
If I look at dbm_monitor_data on the principal most of the data columns (e.g. Send_queue_size) are null where as they have data for the other databases.
Both servers are SQL Server 9.0.2047 Enterprise Edition.
I am looking for a way to monitor the space remaining inside of a database and to receive an e-mail alert when that space gets below a certain threshold.
What I want to do is schedule a job to run every hour or so and check to see if available space in my databases is below about 300 megs. If it is I would then like to be sent an e-mail to my cell phone. I have jobs like this already running on my Oracle databases but am not sure of which tables to query for this in the SQL Server environment.
Does anyone know which table(s) would need to be queried to retrieve this info or, better yet, have a script which already written?
Thanks in Advance!
Trea Johnson Database Administrator Vulcan Materials
I've some trouble with monitoring a database mirroring session. I am testing a lot configuration possiblities, and i use the database mirroring monitor to view the mirroring states.
But in some (most) of my configurations, i only get following informations in the database mirroring monitor:
Oldest unsend transaction, Unrestored Log, Current Restore rate and the Witness Adress. I am working in High safety mode with automatic failover.
Question 1: What are the reasons that all the other indicators (Unsend log, Current send rate, Mirror commit overhead) are not shown?
Question 2: In the moment, i am using certificates for the mirroring communication. I think, my client (who the database mirroring monitor is running) connects with the usual windows authentication to the server and only selects from sys.database_mirroring or something else. So there is no need to create inbound certificates on the partners for the client who is connecting with the mirroring monitor?
We have recently set up two SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition serverswith database mirroring. The mirrors function and fail over without aproblem, but the Database Mirroring Monitor Job fails every time withthe following error message:Incorrect syntax near '.'. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 102) Incorrectsyntax near the keyword 'with'. If this statement is a common tableexpression or an xmlnamespaces clause, the previous statement must beterminated with a semicolon. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 319). The stepfailed.Both SQL Servers are running SP2 with the latest patches.Can anyone help with the resolutionto this this issue?Thank you!Bosko
I need to monitor my database growth, as few of databases are growing rapidly. My client wants the growth list of my databases. have report of database growth of specific databases, at least of one month.
I've been running SQL 2005 Enterprise SP1 for some time. After installing SP2, I miss the "Database Mirror Monitor"-Feature. Where is it? Did MS kill the feature?
Currently there are various teams accessing the database. For costing reasons, we need to track usage.Is there an efficient way to monitor User access to the database.Can we track which user has executed which query(SELECT,insert etc),the login time and such parammeters?
We have our SQL Server 2005 hosted at a datacenter and have only SS Management Studio access (no term serv, no event log, etc.). Also, our hosting company has disabled the Database Mail feature. We have over 60 jobs running on a minute/hourly/daily basis that are critical for our business. It is super important for us to know if and when a job failed.
Given this scenario, how do you suggest we implement monitoring/notification of failed jobs?
Is there any automated script available to - "Monitor Database Growth and if any DB is grown by 20%, sending mail alerts"? If not, what is the approach to write the T SQL script ?
I have setup transactional replication everything on one box. later(two or three weeks later), Replication monitor is show red X Under my publishers (publications is disconnected). this is SQL2005.
Hi, Today, I heard about Sql Profiler, and I seems to be a tool to monitor, analyze, and fine tune sql server. Is there a tool like this for SQL Server Express 2005? thanks,John
Hullo. I have a SQL SCHEDULER Job that keeps hanging.
1) How do I monitor this? I would like to have another Sql Job monitor the first one hourly, and send me an email if it is hanging. Isn't there a system table that tells me a job status?
1a) Once I find the job, how can I "Stop it" automatically?
2) Is there a way to have the Job stop itself it it runs for more than 20 minutes?
Can anyone please tell me whether there are any ways we can check whether a connection that was opened to a SQL Server database is closed. Is there a tool we can use?.
How do I access performance monitor (system monitor).I am using Windows 2000 professional, SQL server 2000. Do I need to set up analysis service or something? I am not seeing system monitor on my box? am I missing something?
I want to know whether any performance monitoring tools/procedure available in market for SQL Server other than Performance monitor, Profiler, Query Ananlzer of SQL Server.
Hi guys! Please tell me where is mistake? I have win.nt workst. 4.0 and SQL Server 6.5 Client Configuration Utility installed. I open Performace monitor and try to add to chart sql server which already have been registered in SQL Enterprise Manager. And I have error message: Computer name not found.
Until this week, I had full functionality of SQL Monitor`s capabilities to monitor SQL Server. Now, when I select our Production Server and attempt to `Add to Chart` I am unable to view/select any SQL Server... entries in the `Object` dropdown list box. When I click the down arrow with the Development server selected I DO see all of the SQL Server selections. This inability to `see` the SQL Server functions in the Performance Monitor for the Production server exists regardless of whether I attempt to view them from a Win NT 4.0 Workstation or at the Server`s console. Again, I had full functionality from both locations last week. The logins have not changed. What has changed?
ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated. I need to monitor this system and I`m running blind at the monent.
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.
I have a winnt and sql server 6.5 when i open up sql performace monitor it doesn't show any thing it comes blank when i go to reintialize the sqlserver object is not there i need to know how can i fix it
I have discovered that there is an extended procedure called xp_fixeddrives, which can check how much space you have on your SQL Server's drives, it works fine. Can some one tell me what can I use to monitor the above (space used on drive) on servers that do not have SQL at all. Remember I want to call that from my SQL NOT from VB
Is there anyway that you can automate performance monitor from the cmd line. I.e feed it some parameters like server and counters and receive a log file at the end.
Hi experts, I just want to know how can i kill all the processes of a database if the database have more than 100 connections.This is for the purpose of restoring a database.
