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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

You're reading from   SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide One stop solution for DBAs to monitor, manage, and maintain enterprise databases

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462541
Length 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vladimír Mužný Vladimír Mužný
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Marek Chmel Marek Chmel
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Preface 1. Setting up SQL Server 2017 2. Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy FREE CHAPTER 3. Backup and Recovery 4. Securing Your SQL Server 5. Disaster Recovery Options 6. Indexing and Performance 7. Troubleshooting SQL Server Environment and Internals 8. Migration and Upgrade 9. Automation - Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2017 10. Always On High Availability Features 11. In-Memory OLTP - Why and How to Use it 12. Combining SQL Server 2017 with Azure

Tools for monitoring performance

SQL Server's toolset is very rich and, when monitoring, we need to know which tool or tools we have to use to address performance issues and how to interpret the results measured by any certain tool. In this section, we will go through all native SQL Server tools that help us monitor the performance of SQL Server.

Activity Monitor

Activity Monitor is a fast and relatively simple tool incorporated within Management Studio. It could be used for a fast overview of current activities running on the instance. As seen in the following screenshot, Activity Monitor is accessible from the popup menu called by right-clicking in Object Explorer at instance level:

The Activity Monitor window

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