Comments on: SQL SERVER – Find Total Number of Transaction on Interval

By: Kin

Kin — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:15:45 +0000

I know that this is very old article… but in order to make query dynamic irrespective of the instance name or default instance, below is the code:

– First PASS
DECLARE @First INT
DECLARE @Second INT
SELECT @First = cntr_value
FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters
WHERE OBJECT_NAME = CASE
WHEN SERVERPROPERTY(‘InstanceName’) IS NULL
THEN ‘SQLServer’
ELSE ‘MSSQL$’ + CAST(SERVERPROPERTY(‘InstanceName’) AS VARCHAR)
END + ‘:Databases’ — Change name of your server
AND counter_name = ‘Transactions/sec’
AND instance_name = ‘_Total’;
– Following is the delay
WAITFOR DELAY ’00:01:00′
– Second PASS
SELECT @Second = cntr_value
FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters
WHERE OBJECT_NAME = CASE
WHEN SERVERPROPERTY(‘InstanceName’) IS NULL
THEN ‘SQLServer’
ELSE ‘MSSQL$’ + CAST(SERVERPROPERTY(‘InstanceName’) AS VARCHAR)
END + ‘:Databases’ — Change name of your server
AND counter_name = ‘Transactions/sec’
AND instance_name = ‘_Total’;
SELECT (@Second – @First) ‘TotalTransactions’
GO

By: tflowers

tflowers — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:19:14 +0000

Pinal, I really like your posts… short, sweet, and directly to the point. Always useful.

By: prasad

prasad — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:21:28 +0000

can anybody please explain me about the instance_name ‘_Total’ ,iam confused about it

By: Dhanhamsan G

Dhanhamsan G — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:52:12 +0000

You can enable Change Tracking, to track the changes to the database-table.
Benefits here would be:
1) You can track changes which you are trying to troubleshoot.
2) You can get the more info on whether you have more INSERTS/DELETES/UPDATES.

I guess the query you have suggested wont help me much in pinning down the suffering table

By: veepool

veepool — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:20:52 +0000

Thanks ,
Nice Script,

I had changed it as follows so it would work on my Sql sever instance.

– First PASS
DECLARE @First INT
DECLARE @Second INT
SELECT @First = cntr_value
FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters
WHERE OBJECT_NAME LIKE ‘%Databases%’ — Change name of your server
AND counter_name like ‘%Transactions/sec%’
AND instance_name like ‘%_Total%’;

SELECT @First
– Following is the delay
WAITFOR DELAY ’00:00:30′
– Second PASS
SELECT @Second = cntr_value
FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters
WHERE OBJECT_NAME LIKE ‘%Databases%’ — Change name of your server
AND counter_name like ‘%Transactions/sec%’
AND instance_name like ‘%_Total%’;
SELECT @Second

SELECT (@Second – @First) ‘TotalTransactions’
GO

By: ermoas

ermoas — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:40:12 +0000

Thanks Pinal, this sure comes handy..