The Force Within Management Data Warehouse Steven Wheeler The Force Within Management Data Warehouse

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Agenda What is the Management Data Warehouse (MDW) – It’s free, how do I get it??? The Three Components that make up the MDW Setting up the MDW Reports Extending the MDW

What is the Management Data Warehouse

What is the MDW? Centralized location for collecting system and performance information It is built into SQL Server starting SQL 2008 It’s actually a relational database Not as robust as 3rd party tools Did I say it was FREE???

Some Uses for the MDW? Performance Baselining Database Growth Forecasting Storage Planning Proactive Tuning Historical Query Analysis

Three Components that Make up the MDW

Three Components that make up the MDW The Management Data Warehouse DB On a centralized SQL server (preferably a non prod server) Watch available drive space Data Collectors Setup on target machines Reports 3 basic reports

Setting up the MDW

Setting up the MDW Create the MWD SQL Instance should be setup on domain service accounts Run wizard to create the MDW Run the Wizard to configure Data Collectors SQL Agent jobs are created automatically

Configuring the MDW Configure Security Roles MDW_Admin MDW_Reader MDW_Writer Configure data retention to save disk space Default 730 days

Configuring the MDW SQL Agent Jobs Target SQL instances Data Collection Send Data Target SQL instances Configure Data Collectors

Installing and Configuring MDW Setting up the MDW DEMO TIME! Installing and Configuring MDW

Reports

Reports Built-in base reports included Disk Usage Summary Query Statistics History Server Activity History

Reports Downside Base reports only displays data for the SQL instance currently connected

Setting up the MDW DEMO TIME! Included Reports

Extending the MDW

Extending the MDW Add custom SSRS reports or a PowerBI Dashboard Create custom Data Collection sets Use SQL Profiler to export trace definition Other Ideas???

Extending the MDW DEMO TIME! Extending Reports

Resources MDW SSRS Custom Reports are from Bill Ramos Microsoft Docs https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/billramo/2010/06/06/mdw-overview-report-for-data-collector-mdw-report-series-part-1/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/data-collection/management-data-warehouse?view=sql-server-2017

Questions???