On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Matt Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote:
> For those of you that to SQL Server DBA stuff, what sort of performance
> monitoring tools do you use?
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you need to benchmark your server to see where you are starting from.

You then need to do a server reboot to see if your environment was
hosed by another process.  This is for data servers that are not just
for data but for applications as well.

You can find scripts for running a benchmark for 2000, I only have 2005 ones.

You need to get a handle on jobs that are running and WHEN they run.

You need to also define if queries are returning way too many rows.

Last point is how your database was set up.  Is this an fantastic OLAP
design and your users are trying to do a lot of reporting off of it as
well?  If that is the case OLAP design is a terrible design for
reporting.  So you have to make a new DB for your reporting needs and
feed it from the OLAP.

Last is indexes, are they in the way?  Does your system have a lot of
inserts, or is it mild in inserts, and massive on queries and edits?



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