Management Data Warehouse Presentation Delivered at SQL Saturday #59 NYC

1. Management Data Warehouse Joseph D’Antoni SQL Saturday NYC 20 November 2010

2. About Me 10 years as a DBA @jdanton on Twitter Vice President of the Philadelphia SQL Server Users Group Currently DBA at Synthes in West Chester

3. SQL Saturday Philadelphia March 5, 2010 Devry University Fort Washington, PA Announcement

4. My favorite moment of last year…

5. History of SQL Server Buildouts

6. Then came consolidation

7. After consolidation…

8. Agenda What is Management Data Warehouse What is going on behind the scenes Configuring MDW Concerns Reports

9. What does MDW do? Collects and stores performance data Allows for easy reporting of growth and performance trends on your SQL Server Collect, store and Report Data can be centralized or distributed

10. Schema Objects MDW Database (Relational) Schemas (Core, Snapshot, Custom) Collection Sets

11. How this works

12. Data Collector Architecture SSMS msdb SQL Agent SQL Server MDW Data Collector (dcexec.exe) Operating System Data Collector Cache

13. MDW Collection

14. Collection Sources (in 2008) DMVs, T-SQL Plan Data SQL Trace Perfmon Counters Potentially more coming in future releases.

15. Custom Collectors Relatively easy to do Can be setup for extended SQL events Technet Note: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssqlisv/archive/2009/01/29/using-sql-server-2008-management-data-warehouse-for-database-monitoring-in-my-application.aspx

16. Managing your MDW Your database can become full pretty quickly

17. Configuring Limits

18. Reports

19. Built In Reports Disk Usage Server Usage Query Activity

20. Demo Initial Configuration of MDW Examination of schema objects Demonstration of reports Exporting reports

21. Questions?