This document summarizes a presentation about Microsoft SQL Server's Management Data Warehouse (MDW). The MDW collects and stores performance data to allow for easy reporting of growth and performance trends. It collects data from sources like DMVs, traces, and performance counters and stores it in a relational database. The presentation covered how the MDW works, configuring collection sources and limits, and demonstrated built-in reports for disk usage, server usage, and query activity. It also discussed how to set up custom collectors and export reports.

1. Management Data WarehouseJoseph D’AntoniSQL Saturday NYC20 November 2010

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

3. SQL Saturday PhiladelphiaMarch 5, 2010Devry UniversityFort Washington, PAAnnouncement

4. My favorite moment of last year…

5. History of SQL Server Buildouts

6. Then came consolidation

7. After consolidation…

8. AgendaWhat is Management Data WarehouseWhat is going on behind the scenesConfiguring MDW ConcernsReports

9. What does MDW do? Collects and stores performance dataAllows for easy reporting of growth and performance trends on your SQL ServerCollect, store and ReportData can be centralized or distributed

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

11. How this works

12. Data Collector ArchitectureSSMSmsdbSQL AgentSQL ServerMDWData Collector (dcexec.exe)Operating SystemData Collector Cache

13. MDW Collection

14. Collection Sources (in 2008)DMVs, T-SQL Plan Data SQL TracePerfmon CountersPotentially more coming in future releases.

15. Custom Collectors Relatively easy to doCan be setup for extended SQL eventsTechnet 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 MDWYour database can become full pretty quickly

17. Configuring Limits

18. Reports

19. Built In ReportsDisk UsageServer UsageQuery Activity

20. Demo Initial Configuration of MDWExamination of schema objectsDemonstration of reportsExporting reports

21. Questions?