August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 59m
English
Performance Monitor enables the graphical display and logging of counters representing aspects of system performance, such as CPU Usage % and Memory Paging. SQL Server exposes its own counters, such as Buffer Cache Hit Ratio, to Performance Monitor through the sys.dm_os_performance_counters DMV.
In chapter 17, we'll cover the use of Performance Monitor as part of a targeted performance-tuning methodology. In this chapter, our focus will be twofold: a broad overview of viewing and capturing counters and using the collected values for baseline analysis. Let's begin with a look at the process of viewing and capturing counters.
In Windows Vista and Server 2008, Performance Monitor ...
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