Managing Server Activity

As a database administrator, it is your job to make sure that SQL Server runs smoothly. To ensure that SQL Server is running optimally, you can actively monitor the server to:

  • Keep track of user connections and locks.

  • View processes and commands that active users are running.

  • Check the status of locks on processes and objects.

  • See blocked or blocking transactions.

  • Ensure that processes complete successfully and detect errors if they do not.

When problems arise, you can terminate a process, if necessary.

Note

Note

For more coverage of monitoring SQL Server, see Chapter 13. In that chapter, you will learn how to use Performance Monitor ...

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