Using Database Performance Warehouse to Monitor Microsoft...

Using Database Performance Warehouse to Monitor Microsoft SQL Server– Report Content Applies to:

Enhancement Package 1 for SAP Solution Manager 7.0 (SP18) and Microsoft SQL Server databases.

SAP Solution Manager 7.1 and Microsoft SQL Server databases.

Using Database Performance Warehouse to Monitor Microsoft SQL Server– Report Content

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

DATABASE PERFORMANCE WAREHOUSE REPORT CONTENT .............................................................. 3

REPORTS PREREQUISITE: CONFIGURE THE DATABASE PERFORMANCE WAREHOUSE FOR MSSQL .............................................................................................................................................................. 5

DATABASE PERFORMANCE WAREHOUSE REPORT CONTENT: LAYOUT BASICS .............................. 6 Chart and Detail: Navigation .......................................................................................................................... 6 Chart: <Report> ............................................................................................................................................... 6 Detail: <Report> ............................................................................................................................................... 7 Chart and Detail: Exceptions .......................................................................................................................... 7

DATABASE PERFORMANCE WAREHOUSE REPORT CONTENT: NAVIGATION BASICS ...................... 8 Time Selection ................................................................................................................................................. 8 Collapsed Report Items................................................................................................................................... 8 Exporting to Excel ........................................................................................................................................... 8 Filtering the Data ............................................................................................................................................. 9 Adding Free Characteristics to the Output ................................................................................................. 10 Database Name versus MSSQL Database Name ....................................................................................... 11

REPORT GROUP: SQL SERVER INSTANCE............................................................................................... 12 Report: Memory Quality ................................................................................................................................ 12 Data Set: MSSQL Memory Quality .................................................................................................................. 13 Data Set: MSSQL Memory Counters .............................................................................................................. 15 Report: Workload ........................................................................................................................................... 16 Data Set: MSSQL Workload Read Counters per Second ............................................................................... 17 Data Set: MSSQL Workload Compilations Counters per Second ................................................................... 18 Report: Parameters ....................................................................................................................................... 19 Data Set: MSSQL Configuration Parameters .................................................................................................. 20

REPORT GROUP: DATABASES AND FILES ............................................................................................... 21 Report: File I/O Statistics .............................................................................................................................. 22 Data Set: MSSQL File IO Statistics ................................................................................................................. 22 Advanced: IO Numbers per Database File ...................................................................................................... 23 Report: Database Options ............................................................................................................................ 24 Report: Workload Characteristics ............................................................................................................... 25 Report: Database Size ................................................................................................................................... 26 Data Set: MSSQL Database Size and Log Consumption ............................................................................... 26 Data Set: MSSQL Database TempDB Size and Log ...................................................................................... 27

REPORT GROUP: SQL SERVER LOCKS AND WAITS ............................................................................... 28 Report: Locks ................................................................................................................................................. 28 Data Set: Lock Times ...................................................................................................................................... 28 Data Set: Locks per Second ............................................................................................................................ 29 Report: Wait Statistics .................................................................................................................................. 30

REPORT GROUP: TABLE INFORMATION (SOLUTION MANAGER 7.1 SP09 AND HIGHER ONLY) ...... 31 Report: Largest Tables.................................................................................................................................. 31 Report: Fastest Growing Tables .................................................................................................................. 31 Advanced: Additional Information Available in the Table Data ................................................................ 32

RELATED CONTENT ..................................................................................................................................... 35 SAP Database Performance Warehouse for Microsoft SQL Server: ........................................................ 35 SAP DBA Cockpit for Microsoft SQL Server............................................................................................... 35


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In the Database Performance Warehouse, all relevant performance indicators that are collected by

the DBA Cockpit are stored in an SAP Business Warehouse (BW) system. This SAP BW system is

used by the Solution Manager Diagnostics (SMD) back-end of an SAP Solution Manager system.

SAP provides content for the DBA Cockpit to analyse the different technical areas of Microsoft SQL

Server.

DATABASE PERFORMANCE WAREHOUSE REPORT CONTENT

The Database Performance Warehouse uses the SAP BW content of the SAP Solution Manager to store database specific performance metrics. The DBA Cockpit within Solution Manager provides flexible analysis reports for these metrics based on BW technology. You can use the report content for capacity planning, trending analysis, troubleshooting, etc. Prior to the implementation of the Database Performance Warehouse, there was no monitoring of database performance in Solution Manager E2EWorkload Analysis:


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After the implementation of the Database Performance Warehouse, the database performance can be reviewed independently or as part of an E2E analysis:

The SQL Server specific reports delivered with the Database Performance Warehouse only display a small amount of the performance characteristics actually stored in the Database Performance Warehouse. In Solution Manager, use transaction SRA1 to browse the Characteristics and Key Figures stored in the InfoCubes that begin with the naming convention 0MSS. If you find data that you would like to add to a report, or would like to create a custom report, see the SCN presentation titled, “Using Database Performance Warehouse to Monitor IBM DB2 for LUW - Part 3”. Although that presentation refers to IBM’s DB2 database, the same principles of adding a custom report apply to SQL Server specific data in the Database Performance Warehouse for SQL Server.

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-14374



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REPORTS PREREQUISITE: CONFIGURE THE DATABASE PERFORMANCE WAREHOUSE FOR MSSQL

You must have already configured the Database Performance Warehouse in order to see the reports described in this paper. In order to understand the architecture and how to configure Solution Manager’s Database Performance Warehouse for Microsoft SQL Server, see the following presentations previously published in SCN:

SAP Database Performance Warehouse for SQL Server in Solution Manager 7.1

SAP Database Performance Warehouse for SQL Server 7.0 EHP1 This article focuses on the report content provided in DBA Cockpit after a successful configuration of the Database Performance Warehouse for Microsoft SQL Server. All reports are introduced with a screenshot and a short description.

Note: The screenshots were taken from a very small test system that was not configured optimally. This was done on

purpose to also show reports that have exceptions highlighted in the screens. The screenshots were not all taken from the same system or at the same point in time.




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DATABASE PERFORMANCE WAREHOUSE REPORT CONTENT: LAYOUT BASICS

The Database Performance Warehouse reports have the same general layouts. Chart and Detail: Navigation Most of the reports have a Navigation section, which is collapsed by default. Here you can select to drill down in either the columns or the rows. You can also filter the data.

Chart: <Report> If the data makes sense to display in a graphic, we show a line chart here:

For example, the memory quality performance counters make a lot of sense to view in either chart or table form.


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Detail: <Report> For all reports, we show a table output of the data. For some data sets, like the Database Configuration Parameters, we only show the data in table form as a chart graphic is not really useful:

Chart and Detail: Exceptions For some data sets we have recommended thresholds and we have configured values to flag the data with either red boxes showing in the chart (as you see in the above chart graphic for the Procedure Cache Hit ratio) or to highlight the rows with red or yellow color in the table output. Below you can see the database on the left has values below the thresholds and the database on the right clearly has measurements that are above the yellow threshold and some that are above the red threshold.


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DATABASE PERFORMANCE WAREHOUSE REPORT CONTENT: NAVIGATION BASICS

The reports in the Solution Manager Database Performance Warehouse are based on the SAP BW Business Explorer technology. This section gives some basic direction on how to navigate in the reports. If you need more help with the terminology, work with an experienced SAP BW colleague or search the SAP BW documentation at http://help.sap.com. Time Selection When you open the Performance Warehouse reporting there is a header at the top of the screen which allows you to customize which data set you would like to see. By default, the screen always opens with the current day’s data selected:

The SAP SQL Server database monitoring infrastructure collects a performance snapshot every 20 minutes (assuming the SQL Server Agent service is running). The data is stored locally in the SQL Server database and is extracted to SAP Solution Manager every hour. Therefore, when Solution Manager refers to a “minute” granularity, it is actually referring to the 20 minute snapshots. If you select the Day or Month view, the data is aggregated. Collapsed Report Items Some report items are for advanced usage and are collapsed by default to provide a cleaner report interface. You simply need to click the triangle icon next to the object title in order to expand it:

Exporting to Excel Right-click on a characteristic column (for example, the Time column) and you get extra options for the data set. The most popular option is to export the current data set to Excel:

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Filtering the Data In many of the reports there is a section titled Navigation. When you expand that object, you can filter the data based on preselected characteristics.

A case where filtering the data might make sense is when the database instance is configured for an HADR scenario and may run on different physical hosts at different times. In the screenshot below, the SQL Server instance ABAPDB1, highlighted in the upper left, is an application with virtual name *****CL1DB1\ABAPDB1. When you click on the Real Host Name filter, you see the physical server node names (ending in 1005 and 1007) where the SQL Server instance has been running at some point when performance data was collected. If you feel that performance is different when the application runs on different nodes, you can filter the data so that you review the performance numbers for one node at a time to see if there is a different performance signature on the nodes.

Some things to remember about clustered applications and the data displayed:

There is actually a third node in this cluster, but the instance ABAPDB1 has not run on this node since the Performance Data Warehouse was configured for this system. Since no data collection has yet been performed on the third node, it does not appear here in the node list. Once a data collection is executed while the database application instance is running on the third node, then that node is reported to Solution Manager and appears in this list.

Filtering by node name is most likely only useful when viewing performance data over a long horizon since the application should not be moving from node to node very frequently.

Rather than filtering by node name, you can also simply add the node names to the data output in the tabular views. See the next section for details.


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Adding Free Characteristics to the Output In many of the reports, the only characteristic displayed is the Time characteristic. This shows the time the performance snapshot was taken by the SQL Server Agent job. However there are additional drilldown characteristics that you can add via the right-click context menu:

After using the above menu to add the Real Host Name to the table, we can see that a failover happened between 2020 and 2100 and we can see the resulting change in the performance counters:


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Database Name versus MSSQL Database Name In other database platforms that SAP supports, a single database application can contain only one database. Therefore, the original Database Performance Warehouse architecture contains a characteristic named Database name. This characteristic always contains the database name you chose when you setup the Database Performance Warehouse. But one SQL Server instance contains, at a minimum, the four system databases master, model, msdb and tempdb. It can also contain up to 32,767 user databases. In the traditional SAP NetWeaver ABAP based systems, we require that only one user database be created in a SQL Server instance. Even with this one user database, there is still a total of 5 databases when the system databases are included. Since we had to provide information about the other SQL Server databases in the same instance where Database Name is installed, we had to add an additional characteristic for the other database names. This is why in the reports where the data is database specific you see two characteristics in the filter, Database Name and MSSSQL Database Name:

So remember that Database Name is the name of the database that you chose to monitor in the Database Performance Warehouse. That database and any other databases in that same SQL Server instance is in the MSSQL Database Name characteristic. This is mostly only important if you are changing the filter like above.


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REPORT GROUP: SQL SERVER INSTANCE

Reports that are displayed on the tab titled SQL Server Instance contain performance and configuration information about the entire SQL Server instance. For example, the memory counters displayed relate to the SQL Server buffers which are instance-specific and not database-specific. If you have several databases in one SQL Server instance, they are all sharing the data buffer and procedure cache buffer. Report: Memory Quality The Memory Quality report shows two data sets:

1. MSSQL Memory Quality – this data set includes:

a. MSSQL Buffer Cache Hit Ratio [%] – the percentage of pages found in the buffer cache without having to read from disk.

b. MSSQL Procedure Cache Hit Ratio [%] – the percentage of compiled plans found in the cache without having to be recompiled.

c. Page Life Expectancy (Seconds) - the number of seconds a page stays in the buffer pool without references.

2. MSSQL Memory Counters – this data set includes:

a. Connection Memory (MB) - the total amount of dynamic memory the server is using for maintaining connections.

b. Lock Memory (MB) - the total amount of dynamic memory the server is using for locks.

c. Maximum Workspace Memory (MB) - the maximum amount of memory available for executing processes, such as hash, sort, bulk copy, and index creation operations.

d. Optimizer Memory (MB) - the total amount of dynamic memory the server is using for query optimization.

e. SQL Cache Memory (MB) - the total amount of dynamic memory the server is using for the dynamic SQL cache.

f. Target Server Memory (MB) - the ideal amount of memory the server can consume.

g. Total Server Memory (MB) - the amount of memory the server has committed using the memory manager.

All of these performance counters are read from SQL Server. If you want to research the meaning of these counters further, see the Using SQL Server Objects documentation in MSDN.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190382(v=sql.110).aspx


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Data Set: MSSQL Memory Quality There are three parts to this dataset: the graphic, the table and the exceptions.

This dataset has three exceptions defined. The value is highlighted in red in both the graphic and the chart if:

1. the Buffer Cache Hit Ratio is < 98%; or

2. the Procedure Cache Hit Ratio is < 94%; or

3. the Page Life Expectancy is < 300 seconds.


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You can toggle the exceptions highlighting on or off with the Exceptions report object:


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Data Set: MSSQL Memory Counters There are two parts to this dataset: the graphic and the table.

There are no exceptions (highlighting) defined for any of these counters.


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Report: Workload The Workload report shows two data sets:

1. MSSQL Workload Read Counters per Second – this data set includes:

a. Batch Requests Per Second – the number of Transact-SQL command batches received per second.

b. Page Reads Per Second – the number of physical database page reads that are issued per second.

c. Page Lookups Per Second – the number of requests per second to find a page in the buffer pool.

d. Index Searches Per Second – the number of index searches per second.

e. Full Scans Per Second – the number of unrestricted full scans per second.

2. MSSQL Workload Compilations Counters per Second – this data set includes:

a. Batch Requests Per Second – the number of Transact-SQL command batches received per second.

b. SQL Compilations Per Second – the number of SQL compilations per second.

c. SQL Recompilations Per Second – the number of statement recompiles per second.

d. Table Lock Escalations Per Second – the number of times locks on a table were escalated to the TABLE or HoBT granularity.

All of these performance counters are read from SQL Server. If you want to research the meaning of these counters further, see the Using SQL Server Objects documentation in MSDN.



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Data Set: MSSQL Workload Read Counters per Second There are two parts to this dataset: the graphic and the table.



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Data Set: MSSQL Workload Compilations Counters per Second There are two parts to this dataset: the graphic and the table.



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Report: Parameters The Parameters report shows one data set in two tables: a small table that displays a filtered list of a few important parameters and an unfiltered list of all SQL Server parameters. All of these parameters are configurable in SQL Server with the sp_configure stored procedure.

1. MSSQL Configuration Parameters [Filtered]

a. awe enabled – used in 32-bit SQL Server system to enable the Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) API.

b. lightweight pooling - causes SQL Server to switch to fiber mode scheduling.

c. max degree of parallelism

d. max server memory

e. min server memory

f. network packet size

g. priority boost

h. set working set size

2. MSSQL Configuration Parameters [All]

a. The list above and all other parameters in sp_configure.

NOTE: inclusion of a parameter in the filtered list does not mean it should be enabled. Some of these parameters are listed so we can ensure they are not active. Always check your configured value for these parameters against the appropriate SAP Notes for the SQL Server version:

SAP Note 879941 - Configuration Parameters for SQL Server 2005

SAP Note 1237682 - Configuration Parameters for SQL Server 2008

SAP Note 1702408 - Configuration Parameters for SQL Server 2012 If you want to research these parameters further, see the Server Configuration Options (SQL Server) documentation in MSDN. This link is for SQL Server 2012 documentation and a few of these parameters are now obsolete in SQL Server 2012. You may need to research some parameters in SQL Server 2008 R2 or earlier documentation.

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189631.aspx


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Data Set: MSSQL Configuration Parameters There are two parts to this dataset: the filtered parameter list table and the full parameter list table. By default, the full parameter list table is collapsed and you have to expand it. Also by default we show the parameters as they are set at the time of each hourly collection. You can see the parameter setting from every 20 minute snapshot by using the right-click enhanced context menu and choosing to swap the characteristic Time (hh) with Time (yyyyMMddhhmm).

There are no exceptions (highlighting) defined for any of these parameters.


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REPORT GROUP: DATABASES AND FILES

Reports that are displayed on the tab titled Databases and Files contain performance and configuration information as it relates to each database. By default, each report filters out some system databases that are present in every SQL Server. They are: master, model, msdb, mssqlsystemresource and pubs . The database pubs is a sample database which you may not have installed. If you have not, then you see the warnings:

No SID found for value pubs of characteristic 0MSS_DBNA Invalid filter on 0MSS_DBNA: Filter changed

This is simply a warning telling you that it has removed the invalid filter entry pubs from the filter list. In most of the reports the SQL Server tempdb has also been filtered out by default. If you wish to see it, you can simply change the filter by expanding the Navigation object for that data set, pressing the filter button, deselecting tempdb from the filter and clicking Transfer. Here is a screenshot:


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Report: File I/O Statistics The File I/O Statistics report shows one data set for all databases in this instance (which are not already excluded in the filter).

1. MSSQL File IO Statistics – this data set includes:

a. Wait per Read – the total time that the users waited for reads issued on the file.

b. Reads per Second – the number of reads issued on the file.

c. MB Read per Second– the number of MBs read on the file.

All of these performance counters are read from SQL Server. If you want to research the meaning of these counters further, see the sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats documentation in MSDN. Data Set: MSSQL File IO Statistics The File I/O Statistics report shows one data set. By default, this report shows the IO statistics for each database in total (except those databases which are already excluded in the filter). Here we see three databases from one instance:

This dataset has two exceptions defined on the Wait per Read column for each database. The value is highlighted if one of the following applies:

The counter is higher than 15

The counter is higher than 30 We did not provide a report object to toggle these exceptions on or off. They are always enabled.



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Advanced: IO Numbers per Database File You can easily add a drilldown to show the statistics by each file number in the database by click a database name in the chart header and selecting Drilldown -> File Number:

The results show the SQL Server file number. Here we see data files 1, 2 and 3 from one database:

Remember that file number 2 is always the SQL Server log file for that database. If you have more than one log file you have to check the actual file numbers in your SQL Server instance via the Catalog View sys.database_files.


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Report: Database Options The Database Options report shows the configurable database options for all databases in this instance (which are not already excluded in the filter). The example below shows five databases:

By default we show the value of the parameters per day. These options should rarely change so looking at the daily settings should be valid for normal checking. If you wish to see the snapshots from every 20 minutes you can swap the drilldown for Calendar Day with the Time (yyyyMMddhhmm) characteristic. If you want to research the meaning of these options further, see the Setting Database Options documentation in MSDN. There are no exceptions (highlighting) defined for any of these options.



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Report: Workload Characteristics The Workload Characteristics report shows the transaction throughput for all databases in this instance (which are not already excluded in the filter). The example below shows four databases:



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Report: Database Size Data Set: MSSQL Database Size and Log Consumption This data set shows the allocated data file size and the percentage of transaction log used for all databases in this instance (which are not already excluded in the filter). The example below shows multiple databases:



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Data Set: MSSQL Database TempDB Size and Log This data set shows the allocated data file size and the percentage of transaction log used for the SQL Server tempdb in this instance:



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REPORT GROUP: SQL SERVER LOCKS AND WAITS

Report: Locks The Locks report provides information about the individual lock requests for this SQL Server instance. By default we filter the data to only show information regarding Page, Object and Key locks. You can change the filter in the report’s Navigation section to show other locks. Data Set: Lock Times



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Data Set: Locks per Second



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Report: Wait Statistics The Wait Statistics report provides information about information about waits encountered by threads that executed in this SQL Server instance. By default we filter the data to only show the data for CXPACKET, LCK_M_X, PAGEIOLATCH_EX, PAGEIOLATCH_SH and WRITELOG waits. You can change the filter in the report’s Navigation section to show other wait types.

This dataset has two exceptions defined. The value is highlighted yellow, if one of the following applies:

The PAGEIOLATCH_SH counter is higher than 20

The WRITELOG counter is higher than 10 We did not provide a report object to toggle these exceptions on or off. They are always enabled.


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REPORT GROUP: TABLE INFORMATION (SOLUTION MANAGER 7.1 SP09 AND HIGHER ONLY)

The Table Information reports shows table size information. The extractors for the table information were delivered with Solution Manager 7.1 but the report visibility is only be delivered with Solution Manager 7.1 SP09 (or SAP_BASIS 702 SP13). Querying and storing table information is expensive so this data is only read once per day, just before midnight of the local SQL Server time. When choosing the time range to display this data, be sure to choose a previous day’s date.

1. Size Used - total number of pages used for the table

2. Size Reserved – the total number of pages reserved for the table

3. Number of rows – the approximate number of rows in the table

All of these performance counters are read from SQL Server. If you want to research the meaning of these counters further, see the sys.dm_db_partition_stats documentation in MSDN. Report: Largest Tables This report shows the top 20 tables in the database by size.

Report: Fastest Growing Tables



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Advanced: Additional Information Available in the Table Data In addition to the table information, there are three other data objects that are hidden by default: Index Name, Statistics Date and Statistics Time. This means you can see the statistics update history for a specific table’s indexes. To limit the load on the amount for data transferred when executing this query, it is best to always:

1. Filter by the table name first to reduce the amount of data displayed:

2. Add the Index Name drilldown.


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3. Add the Statistics Date and Statistics Time columns (Key Figures).

4. Enlarge the time period.


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5. Here you see that the statistics for BALHDR~1 were updated on 13 January.

Because the table information is only extracted once per day, we do not have information about every single statistics update. We only have the data and time of the statistics as they are at the time of extraction. This means in the example above, the statistics could have been refreshed on 13.01.2013 at 11:30:00 and again at 12:00:42 and the extractor job only shows the later statistics refresh as it is the one that exists at the time of the extraction.


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RELATED CONTENT

SAP Database Performance Warehouse for Microsoft SQL Server:

SAP Database Performance Warehouse for SQL Server in Solution Manager 7.1

SAP Database Performance Warehouse for SQL Server 7.0 EHP1 SAP DBA Cockpit for Microsoft SQL Server

SAP DBA Cockpit and Microsoft SQL Server

SAP DBA Cockpit and Microsoft SQL Server - Real Time Performance Analysis

System Administration for SAP and SQL Server with DBA Cockpit

SAP DBA Cockpit and Microsoft SQL Server - Historic Performance Analysis



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