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AnitaDBA2010
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Posted - 2010-12-30 : 13:27:24
Hi All-

I have been asked to set up Perfmon counters on windows server 2008 R2 (64bit) to collect data from the system. Reason to set up counters is SQL Server 2008 R2 on the server has terminated and wont start.

All I am looking for is a good article, link or suggestions to set up perfmon counters to get relevant data

Thanks a lot in Advance
Anita






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tkizer
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Posted - 2010-12-30 : 16:01:17
I don't see how PerfMon counters are going to help you with SQL Server starting up. Have you checked the Application Log in Event Viewer for the error?

Tara Kizer
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AnitaDBA2010
Starting Member

18 Posts

Posted - 2010-12-31 : 15:36:50
Sorry Tara, SQL server is up but I was asked to set up SQL Sever Memory related counters to collect data

Below are the Memory related counters I have added so far but I am still looking for articles related to how to intrepet this data( also scheduling, sample interval time, stop condition etc)

\Memory\Pages/sec
\Physical Disk(_total)\Avg.Desk Queue length
\SQL Server:Access Methods\Pages Splits/sec
\SQL Server:Access Methods\Pages Allocated/sec
SQL Server: Buffer Manager: Buffer Cache Hit Ratio
SQL Server: Buffer Manager: Total Pages
SQL Server: Buffer Manager: Pages writes/sec
SQL Server: Memory Manager: Total Server Memory (KB)
SQL Server: Memory Manager: Target Server Memory (KB)

Thanks
Anita

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russell
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5072 Posts

Posted - 2010-12-31 : 19:00:48
Monitor Page Life Expectancy as well.

Regarding Cache Hit Ratio, it is a poor indicator of good performance, though it can indicate bad performance -- at least on an OLTP system.

Here are a few articles you'll want to read:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/vipulshah/archive/2006/11/30/understanding-perfmon-counters-while-troubleshooting-sql-server-performance-issues.aspx

http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2006/12/dba-101-using-perfmon-for-sql-performance-tuning/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/john_daskalakis/archive/2008/11/20/9128259.aspx

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/articles/per/10_baselining_tips_p1.aspx

Also, sql-server-performance.com had a series of articles 5 or 6 years ago about performing a SQL Server performance audit. It is still a valuable read.
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