As you may aware the PERFMON (SYSMON) utility provides much information to analyze on the systems resource usage, I support and suggest to make use of this tool as much as you can with a default templates within our environment. You may be aware the data is saved as a file with .BLG extension which can be opened again using this SYSMON tool. I ...

The system DMV sys.dm_os_schedulers is an useful DMV to find such as running tasks & active workers threads etc. This is required to monitor the system state is heavily loaded or not, in particular this view will help you identify if there is any CPU bottleneck in the SQL Server machine. SELECT ...

TEMPDB - though the name sounds like temporary database, it most important for any user database! Coming to performance tuning exercise or analysis you would go through Task Manager initially to see how system's memory & processor are coping up. Though they give initial picture of usage it is always better to go through by SYSMON counters, so ...

Until recently I have just used Dedicated Administrator Console (DAC) to connect just to test whether the connection will be successful. You may be aware that only administrator will be able to access a running instance of SQL Server Database Engine to troubleshoot problems on the server—even when the server is unresponsive to other client ...