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  • Performance Dashboard for SQL 2008

    Just in case you haven't seen this http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/thepremiers/archive/2008/06/20/sql-server-2008-performance-studio.aspx then have a read. As I actually create dashboards and performance reporting for sql 2000 and sql 2008, and have been for many years, I'm seeing some of my work...
    Posted to Grumpy Old DBA (Weblog) by GrumpyOldDBA on 06-23-2008
  • Bug in UK SSUG 2008

    It was discovered earlier today that SSUG 2008 was unable to distinguish a Thursday when it fell before a bank holiday friday and as a consequence SSUG would be unable to function on March 20th. It's not thought that other Thursdays that fall before a Friday bank holiday will cause similar problems,...
    Posted to Grumpy Old DBA (Weblog) by GrumpyOldDBA on 03-19-2008
  • Custom Reports for the DBA without SSRS

    Creating Custom Reports for the DBA ( You can find this and other information at http://www.grumpyolddba.co.uk/ ) 1. You don’t need SQL Server Reporting Services to do this 2. You don’t need IIS installed 3. You do need SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 on your client tools e.g. management studio 4. You...
    Posted to Grumpy Old DBA (Weblog) by GrumpyOldDBA on 02-12-2008
  • Things I learned today

    I'm involved with some tuning as usually tends to be the case and amongst the work I've been doing a couple of interesting points arose. Firstly we upgraded the memory in the production cluster, what was unusual for me was that we added more memory than we had databases, I've never worked a production...
    Posted to Grumpy Old DBA (Weblog) by GrumpyOldDBA on 01-30-2008
  • Perfmon Counters thresholds

    Just in case you missed the link to The Premier's blog http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/thepremiers/archive/2008/01/23/monitoring-sql-server-using-performance-monitor.aspx they've just posted details of a perfmon trace viewer. But what is more important is the attached documentation on perfmon counters...
    Posted to Grumpy Old DBA (Weblog) by GrumpyOldDBA on 01-24-2008
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