Every weekend I spend time learning something new and interesting. My primary focus is always on either performance of SQL Server or performance of myself. This weekend, I downloaded dbForge Studio for SQL Server. It is a powerful IDE for SQL Server management, administration, development, data reporting and analysis. I have been using SQL Server Management Studio for most of the my tasks and I like sharing tips and tricks with the same. However, there are moments when I wish that SSMS provides me more than what it has been offered to me. There are moments when I feel that I can write up few macros or automated processes to solve a few of my daily routines with SSMS. In simple word, I wish I could customize SSMS a bit more to my own choice. Let us learn about Three Top Efficiency Features of Management Tool for SQL Server.
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SQL SERVER – SSMS: Server Dashboard Report
The term dashboards come from the automobile world where it meant as instrumentation or controls for operating a vehicle. In the IT parlance, the use of dashboards meant as the state or health of system or organizations. Though this analogy cannot be taken too far because running a business is not same as running a vehicle. But the similarities of knowing the health of the system is bang-on. Let us learn about Server Dashboard Report in this blog post.
In our previous post, I gave an introduction on where to find all the SQL Server Management Studio reports. Today we will look at the first and the most basic report all of us must be working with. It is called as “Server Dashboard” report under the Server node, standard reports node.
Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 24 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.
Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 109 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.
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