Database Fundamental Concepts - Series 2 Monitoring plan => Creating a Performance Baseline => Server-Side Profiler Traces => System Monitor to monitor SQL Server and the OS by Dr.Subramani Paramasivam

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Database
Fundamental
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FC-02: Monitoring plan
DR. SUBRAMANI
PARAMASIVAM
(MANI)

2. About
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Dr. SubraMANI Paramasivam
PhD., MCT, MCSE, MCITP, MCP, MCTS, MCSA
CEO, Principal Consultant & Trainer
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3. Contents
FC-02: Monitoring plan
• Creating a Performance Baseline
• Server-Side Profiler Traces
• System Monitor to monitor SQL Server and the OS
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4. FC-02:Monitoring Plan
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5. Monitoring Plan
• Plenty of monitoring tools available
• Monitor the performance of the server
and database.
• Monitoring plan is mandatory.
• Automate the plan.
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6. Creating a Performance Baseline
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7. Creating a Performance Baseline
• To determine whether your SQL Server system is performing
optimally.
• Measurements at regular intervals, to establish a server performance
baseline.
• Compare each new set of measurements with old.
• Use Baseline Measurement to find below,
• Peak and off-peak hours of operation.
• Production-query or batch-command response times.
• Database backup and restore completion times.
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8. Creating a Performance Baseline
• Performance baseline should be followed on below areas
• System resources (hardware)
• Network architecture
• The operating system
• Database applications
• Client applications
• After you establish a server performance baseline, compare the
baseline statistics to current server performance.
• Kick start the investigation.
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9. Creating a Performance Baseline
• Use the SQL Server profiler to
fix the performance baseline.
• Decide which events should be
considered.
• Store the collected information
in Table or file.
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10. DEMO
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11. Server-Side Profiler Traces
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12. Server-Side Profiler Traces
• Server side traces are much lighter as it does not need to transfer
data over the network
• There are four steps in creating server side trace.
• Defining a trace.
• Defining the events and columns to be captured.
• Defining the filter condition.
• Start the trace.
• For a server-side trace to a file, the only applicable option is where
the trace file will be located.
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13. Server-Side Profile Traces
• Server side traces use less resources than a SQL profiler trace.
• To Configure the Server Side Traces we will use SQL Server Profiler.
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14. DEMO
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15. System Monitor to monitor
SQL Server and the OS
How many used?
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16. System Monitor
• It’s a graphical tool available in Windows server operating system.
• Uses Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) to collect information from
Microsoft SQL Server.
• By using system monitor we can view SQL Server’s information about
• Objects
• Behaviour of objects
• Processors
• Memory
• Cache
• Threads
• Performance Counters
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17. System Monitor
• Performance related issues (operating system and SQL Server).
• Areas to Monitor
• Disk Activity
• Processor(CPU) Utilization
• Memory Usage
• Performance Counter is good tool to understand how SQL Server is
behaving at micro level.
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18. Performance Counter (Perfmon)
• Why counters?
• Counters are used to provide information as to how well the operating system or an
application, service, or driver is performing.
• Some of the Counters
• MSSQL:Access Methods
• MSSQL:Buffer Manager
• MSSQL:Broker Statistics
• MSSQL:SQL Errors
• MSSQL:SQL Statistics
• MSSQL:Locks
• MSSQL:Buffer Node
• MSSQL:Plan Cache
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19. Performance Counters
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Counters will be
added by default
when any
application is
installed.
Can add the
counters using “Add
Counters” Wizard.

20. DEMO
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21. Review
Creating a performance baseline
Server-side profiler traces
System monitor or Performance monitor
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22. Q & A
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23. ®
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