You're reading from SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide A definitive guide for DBAs to implement, monitor, and maintain enterprise database solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789954326

Length 522 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

SQL

Tools

SQL Server

Concepts

Database Administration

Authors (2):

Marek Chmel

Vladimír Mužný

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Provisioning the SQL Server Environment

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up SQL Server 2019 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy

4. Section 2: Server and Database Maintenance

5. Chapter 3: Implementing Backup and Recovery

6. Chapter 4: Securing Your SQL Server

7. Chapter 5: Working with Disaster Recovery Options

8. Chapter 6: Indexing and Performance

9. Section 3: High Availability and the Cloud with SQL Server 2019

10. Chapter 7: Planning Migration and Upgrade

11. Chapter 8: Automation – Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2019

12. Chapter 9: Configuring Always On High Availability Features

13. Chapter 10: In-Memory OLTP – Why and How to Use it

14. Chapter 11: Combining SQL Server 2019 with Azure

15. Chapter 12: Taming Big Data with SQL Server

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Tools for monitoring performance

SQL Server's toolset is very rich and when monitoring, we need to know which tool or tools we must 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 SQL Server Management Studio. It could be used for a fast overview of current activities running on the instance. As shown in the following screenshot, Activity Monitor is accessible from the pop-up menu that can be called by right-clicking in Object Explorer at the instance level:

Fig. 6.9 – The Activity Monitor window

In the preceding screenshot, Activity Monitor is already open and has been divided into six sections: