SQL SERVER – Find Total Number of Transactions on Interval

In one of my recent Performance Tuning assignment I was asked how do someone know how many transactions are happening on server during certain interval. I had handy script for the same. Following script displays transactions happened on server at the interval of one minute. You can change the WAITFOR DELAY to any other interval and it should work.

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SQL SERVER – Plan Cache – Retrieve and Remove – A Simple Script

I had a very interesting situation at my recent performance tuning project. I realize that the developers there were running very large dataset queries on their production server randomly. I got alarmed so I suggested their developer not to do that on the production server; instead, they could create some alternate scenarios where they could synchronize database and query on the same server. The production server should not be used for development work. It should be queried with proper methods (queries, Stored Procedures, etc.), supporting production application.

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