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

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8. Steven Wheeler Retired from the Army
Electronics Repair
Computer Networking
Database experience going back to SQL 2000
Currently DBA for Enterprise Integration
MCSA SQL Server 2012/2014
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9. 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

10. What is the Management Data Warehouse

11. 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???

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

13. Three Components that Make up the MDW

14. 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

15. Setting up the MDW

16. 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

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

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

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

20. Reports

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

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

23. Setting up the MDW
DEMO TIME!
Included Reports

24. Extending the MDW

25. 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???

26. Extending the MDW
DEMO TIME!
Extending Reports

27. Resources MDW SSRS Custom Reports are from Bill Ramos Microsoft Docs

28. Questions???