Creating a performance baseline
Baseline refers to the normal or typical state of your SQL Server and environment performance. This baseline is very important to you for numerous reasons, and these are as follows:
- When you start troubleshooting the server, you need to know how your server will behave toward something odd.
- You can proactively tune the system if you find a weak spot in the baseline.
- When you plan to upgrade your server, you know how the load was increasing over time, so you can plan properly.
As a matter of fact, you won't have just one single baseline, but you can create multiple baselines depending on the variable workload. In such a case, you will have a baseline for the following:
- Business hours
- Peak usage
- End of week/month/quarter due to closures; reporting
- Weekend
Creating a performance baseline and capturing performance information for your server is, hence, a very crucial task and should be deployed to each...
