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SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide - Second Edition

You're reading from SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide - Second Edition

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Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789954326

Pages 522 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Database Administration

Authors (2):

Marek Chmel

Vladimír Mužný

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Provisioning the SQL Server Environment

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up SQL Server 2019

3. Chapter 2: Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy

4. Section 2: Server and Database Maintenance

5. Chapter 3: Implementing Backup and Recovery

6. Chapter 4: Securing Your SQL Server

7. Chapter 5: Working with Disaster Recovery Options

8. Chapter 6: Indexing and Performance

9. Section 3: High Availability and the Cloud with SQL Server 2019

10. Chapter 7: Planning Migration and Upgrade

11. Chapter 8: Automation – Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2019

12. Chapter 9: Configuring Always On High Availability Features

13. Chapter 10: In-Memory OLTP – Why and How to Use it

14. Chapter 11: Combining SQL Server 2019 with Azure

15. Chapter 12: Taming Big Data with SQL Server

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Tools for monitoring performance

SQL Server's toolset is very rich and when monitoring, we need to know which tool or tools we must use to address performance issues and how to interpret the results measured by any certain tool. In this section, we will go through all native SQL Server tools that help us monitor the performance of SQL Server.

Activity Monitor

Activity Monitor is a fast and relatively simple tool incorporated within SQL Server Management Studio. It could be used for a fast overview of current activities running on the instance. As shown in the following screenshot, Activity Monitor is accessible from the pop-up menu that can be called by right-clicking in Object Explorer at the instance level:

Fig. 6.9 – The Activity Monitor window

In the preceding screenshot, Activity Monitor is already open and has been divided into six sections:

Overview
Processes...

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Authors (2)

Marek Chmel

Marek Chmel is a senior CSA at Microsoft, specializing in data and AI. He is a speaker and trainer with more than 15 years' experience. He has been a Data Platform MVP since 2012. He has earned numerous certifications, including Azure Architect, Data Engineer and Scientist Associate, Certified Ethical Hacker, and several eLearnSecurity certifications. Marek earned his master's degree in business and informatics from Nottingham Trent University. He started his career as a trainer for Microsoft Server courses and later worked as SharePoint team lead and principal database administrator. He has authored two books, Hands-On Data Science with SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide.

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Vladimír Mužný

Vladimír Mužný has been a freelance developer and consultant since 1997. He has been a Data Platform MVP since 2017, and he has earned certifications such as MCSE: Data Management and Analytics and MCT. His first steps with SQL Server were done on version 6.5, and from that time on, he has worked with all following versions of SQL Server. Now Vladimir teaches Microsoft database courses, participates in SQL Server adoption at various companies, and collaborates on projects for production tracking and migrations.

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