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 Where'd Activity Monitor Go?

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Heinduplessis
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Posted - 2011-08-14 : 14:09:35
In SQL 2005 Enterprise Manager, I was able to go down to Management / Activity monitor and it would give me a list of the current processes, show me what the queries are, which are locked and allow me to kill processes & connections.

If I check under Activity Monitor under 2008 (right-click on the server) I only get a very high level view of what's happening on the server, and I'm unable to see which individual process are running.

Am I missing things, or should I regress to run queries on master?

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2011-08-14 : 16:01:17
They moved it to the toolbar, and it sucks worse than the 2005 version! It gets worse with each version actually. I loved the 6.5 version. 2000's was okay, 2005 was bearable, and 2008 is unusable.

I now only use sysprocesses/sp_who/sp_who2/DMVs.

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Heinduplessis
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23 Posts

Posted - 2011-08-14 : 23:39:01
Thanks, was such a essential part of my diagnostics :/
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2011-08-15 : 00:09:59
Sure, no problem.

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Bustaz Kool
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1834 Posts

Posted - 2011-08-19 : 18:23:43
In Re: "Where'd Activity Monitor Go?"

To hell in a hand cart.

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pdset
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

310 Posts

Posted - 2011-08-25 : 20:52:30

I was like you the earliest victim of this!

Quite rightly said all above.


Fortunately,


http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175518.aspx

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