With schools starting for my daughter, I rarely get involved in her daily routine activity. But there is one thing that I don’t try to miss – the parents-teachers meet. Sometimes it is not about the report card on how my daughter faired against the rest in the class but it is more than that. I am curious to understand how she behaves in the class, how she makes friends in class, how her extra-curricular activities are, is she disciplined overall etc. Those are key attributes and traits I am looking at getting as feedback from the teachers in that hour of interactions. Let us learn about Dormant Sessions in this blog post.
SQL SERVER – Free intellisense add-in for SSMS
This article shows how to use ApexSQL Complete, a free intellisense add-in. You can download ApexSQL Complete, and play along through the article.
SQL SERVER – SSMS: Memory Consumption Report
The next in line in this series of reports is the “ Memory Consumption ” Report from SQL Server Management Studio. This is a goldmine of a report in my humble opinion and lesser respected. When I used to be consulted or land into performance tuning exercises for customers in the past, there is one question that gets repeated and echoed every now and then – “My SQL Server is eating away my RAM and it is not releasing it back even in non-peak hours”.
SQL SERVER – SSMS: Scheduler Health Report
Have you ever been to a music concert? It is the most humbling experience one can get as a music lover. The live music with hundreds of musicians in one stage brings goosebumps with the very thought. I have always been fascinated and wanted to experience this once in a…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – SSMS: Schema Change History Report
The heat is picking up and I am glad you are liking this series going so far. This particular report is close to my heart and the most recommended. At my recent trip to Delhi and the user group out there, I had the opportunity to meet a number of…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – SSMS: Configuration Changes History
As we go through each of the reports available in SQL Server Management Studio, I have an anecdote to share almost for most of them actually. I have used them extensively at different times and I am glad to share some of them via this blog series. Once a friend…
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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.