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 MSDE's connection throttling - any way to monitor?

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sbt1
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89 Posts

Posted - 2003-05-30 : 06:58:14
We're using MSDE as our database engine in an office with less than 10 users for this particular application.

So far, it seems to be working fine.

But I understand MSDE has a built-in throttling mechanism to restrict the number of concurrent connections or operations to some number (5?).

Is there a way to monitor to see if we're hitting that limit and how often, so I can forecase whether we should plan to upgrade to SQL Server?

JustinBigelow
SQL Gigolo

1157 Posts

Posted - 2003-05-30 : 11:27:34
Using SQL Profiler you can monitor the ExistingConnection connection class to get a count. It's part of the Session event class. Check BOL for more info.

hth,
Justin

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MichaelP
Jedi Yak

2489 Posts

Posted - 2003-05-30 : 11:58:27
I believe that it writes stuff into the event log when you go over the limit. It tells you how far you went over the limit as well. It's a bit cryptic how it tells you, but it will give you some idea as to how far over you are going.

Michael

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izaltsman
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1139 Posts

Posted - 2003-05-30 : 15:43:37
Check out DBCC CONCURRENCYVIOLATION command in BOL.
It will allow you to view the number of times you've hit the limit, and it will also allow you to log concurrency violations in the errorlog.

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