Performance Tuning Redefined with SQL 2008

Praveen Srvatsa
Director | AsthraSoft Consulting Microsoft Regional Director, Bangalore Microsoft MVP, ASP.NET http://blogs.asthrasoft.com/praveens | praveens@asthrasoft.com

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What We Will Cover

Performance Studio concepts (data collection, management data warehouse) How to monitor/troubleshoot performance issues using Performance Studio New performance monitoring features in SQL Server 2008 Long-term investment: Foundations for performance monitoring in the future

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Helpful Experience
SQL Server Management Studio Performance Monitoring Transact-SQL (T-SQL)

Level 200
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Agenda
Overview Architecture Components Future Plans

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What Is Performance Studio?

A framework that ties together collection, analysis, troubleshooting, and persistence of SQL Server diagnostics information. It consists of a suite of tools for:
Low overhead data collection Performance monitoring, troubleshooting, tuning Persistence of diagnostics data Reporting

Short term goals: Provide enhanced data collection and reports out of the box
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Performance Studio Overview

Data Collection Performance and Diagnostics Monitoring Data Collection Sets System Collection Sets Reports

Policy-Based management

Management Data Warehouse Historical and Baseline Comparisons

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Overview Architecture Components Future Plans

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Performance Studio Architecture

Data Collection UI (Object Explorer)

Data Collection Configuration

Collection Set Reports

Management Data Warehouse

Data Collector Targe Target t Data Collector

Targe Target t

Data Collector
Data Collector

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Agenda
Overview Architecture Components Future Plans

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Performance Studio Components

Server Side: Data Collector
Extensible data collection infrastructure Includes out of the box data collections required to identify and troubleshoot the most common problems for the relational engine Support for SQL Server relational engine only, but other SQL Server services can be added in the future

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Performance Studio Components

Server Side: Management Data Warehouse
Data repository for baseline and historical comparisons Aggregated reporting for multiple SQL Server instances

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Performance Studio Components

Client Side: Data collection configuration UI
Management data warehouse properties General data collection properties Collection set configuration

SQL Server dashboard based on system collection sets reports Performance monitoring and troubleshooting Historical data analysis based on warehouse information
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Data Collector
Unified data collection infrastructure
Performance and general diagnostics data

Configurable and extensible

Support for adding new data providers

Centralized storage Always on, low overhead

Tools for monitoring provide optimal database environment performance

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Data Collector Concepts

Data Provider
Source of information (for example, SQL Trace, Perform counters, DMVs, T-SQL queries, logs)

Collector Type
Knows how to read and expose data from specific data providers

Collection Item
Instance of a collector type Determines data inputs and frequency
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Data Collector Concepts

Collection Set
Group of collection items Logic unit of data collection

Management Data Warehouse

Repository for data being collected (historical and baseline analysis)

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Data Collector Concepts

T-SQL Queries T-SQL Collector
select * from dm_os_performance_ counters

Data Provider

Collector Type

Collection Item

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Data Collector Concepts

Collection Item 1

Collection Item N

Collection Set

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Data Collector Architecture

SSMS msdb SQL Agent

SQL Server

Operating System

Data Collector (dcexec.exe)

MDW

Data Collector Cache

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Data Collector Architecture

Collected Data Collection Job (SSIS runtime)

Data Collector Cache

Upload Job (SSIS runtime)

MDW

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Data Collection Providers

SQL Server 2008
T-SQL based queries (such as DMV data) SQL Trace Perfmon Counters

Potential candidates for future releases

WMI events Additional collector types that may have direct insight into SQL Server process

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Data Collector Extensibility

Custom collector types
Provided by ISVs

Collections from known sources can be easily extended

Specify new SQL Trace events for collection Specify new performance counters for collection

Custom collection sets

Based on existing Collector Types

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Adding Value
Collector types that can be developed:
SANs (Storage Area Network)
Health Activity Performance impact Communication channels

NAS (Network Attached Storage) Network Monitoring VMWare (Virtualization)

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Management Data Warehouse

Relational database stores collect data Management Data Warehouse (MDW) objects are grouped in schemas, each schema serving a different purpose:
Core Snapshot Custom_Snapshot

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Management Data Warehouse

Core:
Defines tables and stored procedures used for organizing and identifying collected data

Snapshot:
Objects (data tables, views) needed to store collected data from standard, out-of-the-box data collector types, and system collection sets

Custom_Snapshot:
New data tables can be added for standard collector types or third-party collector types for userdefined collection sets
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MOM Integration
Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) Server
MOM Data Warehouse

MOM Server
MOM Data Warehouse

SQL Server
MOM Agent Data Collector

MOM Agent MDW

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MOM Integration
MOM agent uses Data Collector to gather SQL Server diagnostics information Data Collector provides a coherent collection set definition for specific issues Data Collector cached data can either:
Be uploaded to the MOM data warehouse directly by the MOM agent (no MDW) Be uploaded to MDW first, and then to the MOM Connect with life data warehouse when required
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Relational Engine Data Collection Sets

Based on top PSS reported issues Problem characterization through out-of-the-box Data Collection Sets Working closely with Product Support Services (PSS) and Engine teams Address most important problems first Use right metrics for performance issues

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Performance Dashboard
Based on System Data Collection Sets
Server Activity High level SQL Server and system information Should be turned on all the time Low overhead (that is, <5 percent) Query Statistics Detailed SQL Server information Drill down to performance issues root cause Disk Usage General disk activity information per database
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Agenda
Overview Architecture Components Future Plans

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Future Plans
Advanced troubleshooting Automatic problem detection Enhanced monitoring and alerting Improved dynamic baselining Tools suite

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Session Summary
Performance Studio concepts New performance monitoring features in SQL Server 2008 Long-term investment

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