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Is there a performance dashboard for SQL Server?
The Performance Dashboard was first released as a standalone download for SQL Server 2005, and later updated for SQL Server 2012. While the SQL Server Management Studio report renderer does not support clipboard access to text contained in the reports, the text can be accessed via the standalone reports.
How to monitor the performance of SQL Server?
For example, @@CPU_BUSY contains the amount of time the CPU has been executing SQL Server code; @@CONNECTIONS contains the number of SQL Server connections or attempted connections; and @@PACKET_ERRORS contains the number of network packets occurring on SQL Server connections.
Which is an example of a performance dashboard?
The Performance Dashboard will appear as a new tab. Below is an example where a CPU bottleneck is clearly present: The Missing Indexes report shows potentially missing indexes that the Query Optimizer identified during query compilation. However, these recommendations should not be taken at face value.
SQL Server 2012 Performance Dashboard Reports is one of most popular SQL Server monitoring solution for customers and SQL community leveraging dynamic management views (DMVs) for monitoring and reporting and available at no cost to consumers.
How is MSDB database used in SQL Server?
msdb Database. The msdb database is used by SQL Server Agent for scheduling alerts and jobs and by other features such as SQL Server Management Studio, Service Broker and Database Mail.
What kind of recovery model does MSDB use?
By default, msdb uses the simple recovery model. If you use the backup and restore history tables, we recommend that you use the full recovery model for msdb. For more information, see Recovery Models (SQL Server).
How big does MSDB database need to be?
The sizes of these files may vary slightly for different editions of SQL Server Database Engine. Autogrow by 10 percent until the disk is full. Autogrow by 10 percent to a maximum of 2 terabytes. To move the msdb database or log files, see Move System Databases.