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 ...

Dynamic Management Views (DMV) are very useful to get server state information to monitor the status, but not always you have to still continue in monitoring using SYSMON & PROFILER that are available by default with SQL installation. The engine within SQL Server 2005 improves accuracy by using the high-resolution counters that are capable to ...

As this is the 2nd instalment of public CTP of SQL Server 2008 we will be expecting more information on 'whats new' and 'whats not (deprecated)'. For me (majority of you too) having handful information with DMVs is essential, in this regad we have 5 new DMVs available with this CTP, here they are: sys.dm_os_memory_brokers This DMV is helpful to ...

Got the below script from PSS when we were dealing with a support case to identify the root cause for Scheduler errors during a performance loss & exception errors exercise: select scheduler_id, current_tasks_count, runnable_tasks_count, current_workers_count, active_workers_count, work_queue_count, load_factor from sys.dm_os_schedulers where ...

UPDATE STATISTICS is very helpful to get the performance by updating the distribution of key values for one or more statistics groups or set of collections in the specified table or indexed view. So how this is handled within the SQL Server, you may be aware that SQL 2000 version uses a counter (rowmodctr) to track row modification and within SQL ...

Have you ever identified the reasons for why and how does a query execution timeout happens within your SQL Server environment. For the beginners I would like to explain that b efore executing a query, SQL Server estimates how much memory it needs to run and tries to reserve this amount of memory from the buffer pool. If the reservation succeeds ...