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SQL SERVER 2005 Performance Monitoring

Rick Martinez — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:40:41 +0000

Hello, is there a free software tool to monitor sql server 2005 similar to Quest FogLight? Quest FogLight is just too expensive for my budget. I am an independent consultant and I want to be able to monitor my client’s sql server.

Reducing SQL Server backup and restore time

SQL Server Ask the Experts — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:39:09 +0000

Question Edited by MTidmarsh

Is having the auto create statistics on in a database a good thing?

Rick Martinez — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:08:28 +0000

Hello I have a 250GB database and the auto create statistics is on is that a good thing?

Resource usage of SQL Server 2005 Generate Script

Db23 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:28:27 +0000

Hi,

I am wondering how resource hungry the Generate Script for SQL Server 2005 is. We are planing to script out one of our production database on a production server that has over 1000 object to script, and wether this will have more affect on SQL performance during the scripting?

Thanks.

System hangout

Udaykirak — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:11:15 +0000

I have client working on a HCL pc with 2GBram core2 processor he is working on SQL server the problem is that the performance goes down in the evening and hangoff and he even could not open his network drive can any one you could suggest some solution for this problem

Tuning and viewing SQL Server reports

SQL Server Ask the Experts — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:23:32 +0000

I have developed several reports and deployed on the remote server. While running reports on a browser, it takes about 20 to 30 seconds, but when i browse the same on the remote server, reports get displayed in 5-8 seconds. Do I need to tune my server to enhance its performance, and how should I do so?

SQL Error

Yesu — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:44:13 +0000

hi i am getting error primary filegroup is full. create a space by deleting unneeded files,dropping objects in the filegroup.

I have disk space 30gb then also the error

please help

Adding SQL perfrmon counters

Labnuke99 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:26:37 +0000

Recently a site administrator installed a SQL2000 server on Windows 2003. For some reason the perfmon counters for SQL do not show up when trying to check performance. How should these counters be added and/or activated post-installation?

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SQL 2000 db transactions/sec

Labnuke99 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:25:43 +0000

What number of SQL 2000 database transactions/sec would be of concern on a system? Windows Server 2003, 4GB RAM, 2CPU (dual core).

Thanks for the guidance.

SQL Server 2000 performance issues

Labnuke99 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:05:11 +0000

Running SQL Server 2000, SP4 on Windows Server 2003 R2. 4GB RAM; 3GHz dual-processor, dual-core. The databases and logs are on an ISCSI SAN. This is the original implementation design. Since the beginning the users have said the system does not perform as well as they would like.

The database application is a manufacturing information system. It has product information in the form of pictures, PDF’s for work instructions, quality control info and such. There is not really a very large number of users (<50) and they are all located on the local LAN. I have read some of MrDenny’s excellent SQL tips and have been watching the server performance using perfmon over the past couple of days and have some questions about specific stats. What do they mean and above what value should we be concerned and address a problem?

%processor time for the SQL process matches the total processor % time – so nothing else really seems to be hitting this server. The average total processor utilization% is about 58% over an 18 hour period (54% user and 4% privileged). With 23% of the time between 50-60%, 15% between 60-70%, 15% between 70-80%, and 12% above 80%. Is the application processor-bound?

Another consideration is the Processor Queue length. Over 20% of the time the processor queue length is above 4. Doesn’t this mean that the system is waiting for each processor/core to complete a task and instructions are building up in the queue?

What is the typical value for the SQL buffer manager page life expectancy? On this system, the majority of the time is spent under 4200 secs. Does this mean that a lot of disk reads are happening? The thing about this though is the buffer cache hit ratio is above 95% for the majority (98%) of the time.

It also seems like the memory pages/sec is low and page file usage is low. So, it doesn’t seem to be a memory constraint issue either.

Thanks for your assistance on this puzzling issue.