Chapter 14. Profiling and Monitoring Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Monitoring server performance, tracking user activity, and troubleshooting errors are essential parts of database administration, and Microsoft SQL Server has several tools that you can use to perform these tasks. Reliability And Performance Monitor, the standard Microsoft Windows Server 2008 tool for monitoring servers, has updated counters for SQL Server. These counters allow you to track many different server resources and activities. SQL Server Profiler, ...

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