Comments on: SQL SERVER – Download PSSDIAG Data Collection Utility

By: Dale

Dale — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:00:49 +0000

Got a customer that I tried to run this on. They had installed it remotely on a server, and installed the service, but it would start and stop almost immediately. Why is it doing this?

By: Amit Banerjee

Amit Banerjee — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:40:50 +0000

Now WordPress comments need a LIKE button! :)

By: pinaldave

pinaldave — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:15:42 +0000

:-) Glad to be your friend!

By: Amit Banerjee

Amit Banerjee — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:19:00 +0000

Thanks for the mention! :)

By: Prashant Kumar

Prashant Kumar — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:31:44 +0000

Cool..

By: pinaldave

pinaldave — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:27:35 +0000

Prashant – you are absolutely correct!

This is very old for sure and for those who are still stuck with SQL Server 2000.

I upgraded the link of Amit Benerjee in the blog post – Amit is great friend of mine.

By: Prashant Kumar

Prashant Kumar — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:59:15 +0000

Pinal.

That’s a pretty old link just that it was updated today. That PSSDiag is for SQL 2000 or 7.0. Refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830232 which redirects to the same link you mentioned above.

For SQL 2005+, jackli released PSSDiag last year on codeplex. Can be downloaded from http://diagmanager.codeplex.com/releases/view/67449

More details on that release http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2011/05/24/pssdiag-sqldiag-configuration-manager-released-to-codeplex.aspx

That said, running PSSDiag may not always be a easy on Prod servers. You know the gotchas – approvals, firewalls etc..

I, instead, encourage to use already inbuilt tool called sqldiag. There is a GUI version of it so that you configure easily. http://sdct.codeplex.com/

P.S: Any discussion on PSSDiag would seem incomplete without a mention of its co-author Amit Banerjee. Check out his cool tips http://troubleshootingsql.com/2011/05/25/tools-tips-and-tricks-9-pssdiag-configuration-manager/