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Predicting future performance with SQL Server
Did you know that it’s possible to use existing performance metrics to predict future workloads and then use that same approach to model system changes and how those changes may impact your servers? It is. Take a look at BEZVision – there are all sorts of great options for doing this type of forecasting so you’ll be prepared and the boss will be impressed. Get more information here – and download the whitepaper in the left menu.
Most Common SQL Server Issue You’re Seeing?
Donald wrote in with some really great feedback on what types of things they’re monitoring for with SQL Server. (Send in your key items here)
I thought I’d share just a portion of their experience with Idera’s product to show the types of things they see issues with as they work with their servers – might give you some ideas on what types of things to monitor for in your own environment.
"What are the most common types of issues you find yourself chasing? Locking? Blocking? Server capacity vs. current load? Something else?
One on of our systems, the most common issue is capacity – where a user will access and run a report that will hammer the system – we have a replicated database for reporting for this database, but now and then – they will get mixed up and run on off the production system, we get the warning alerts, check, contact and have them stop the report and then all is well.
The next one we see is blocking – this is happens on a partner provided application and we are moving away from this partner and the new partners application does not have this issue. Our next one is SQLdm monitors the database allocated and available space – we have a warning scheduled to inform us when the database has used X percent of the allocated space, so we can schedule to grow the database before the auto grow takes place. We have auto grow on for safety – but there is nothing worse than that kicking off on a 1T database during the middle of the day!"
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