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Amit BanerjeeSupport Escalation EngineerMicrosoft Corporation

SQL Server FAQ: http: //blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverfaq TroubleshootingSQL: http://troubleshootingsql.com Twitter: @banerjeeamit | @MicrosoftSQLCSS 

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What is Performance Dashboard

Installation and usage

What can it be used for?Demo

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A set of RDLs deployed using custom reports featurein Management Studio which help resolve the mostcommon performance issues, such as blocking, high

CPU usage, latch contention and disk I/O bottleneck,without having to execute T-SQL queries.

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  Install the Performance Dashboard Reports from

Microsoft Downloads siteOnce you install the above, go to \ProgramFiles\Microsoft SQLServer\90\Tools\PerformanceDashboard  and run

the setup.sql script against the SQL instance thatyou want to monitor the performance for.

Right click on the Server Name inObject Explorer -> Reports ->

Custom Reports and selectperformance_dashboard_main.rdl

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 CPU bottlenecks (which queries are consuming themost CPU and Plan for this query)

IO bottlenecks (which queries are performing themost IO and Plan for this query).

Index recommendations generated by the queryoptimizer (using Missing Indexes DMV feature)

Blocking

Latch contention and other Wait Types

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 CPU usage based on Ring Buffer output

Blocking information based onsys.dm_exec_requests output

All hyperlinks allow various levels of drill-

downs to get query-text and the queryplan along with connection properties

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Dashboard Main report -> Click on the waits showing up with the highestcount to get to this report

Further drill-down is available using Session ID or Query-text columns

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Download link: SQL Server 2005Performance Dashboard 

Configuring Performance Dashboard forSQL Server 2008 

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