1. Troubleshooting From the Field – Part 2 SQL DIAG & SQL NEXUS By Ahmad Osama SQL Server Geeks - Editor In Chief and Regional Mentor(Delhi & NCR) www.ahmadosama.net www.sqlservergeeks.com/people/ahmadosama

2. Agenda SQL DIAG For Data Collection PerfStats For Data Collection SQL NEXUS For Data Analysis

3. 1.What it Collects? 1.Server Side Tracing 2.Performance Counters 3.Event logs, Error Logs, dumps etc 2.How it Collects? 1.Command line tool 2.As a service 3.As a scheduler 4.Options as an XML file 5.Specific or All Instance SQL DIAG for Data Collection

4. SQLDIAG Demo

5. 1.Adds Custom diagnostic to SQL DIAG 2.New Configuration files 3.Waits Stats 4.Locking and blocking 5.Tightly integrated with SQL NEXUS PerfStats for Data Collection

6. PerfStats Demo

7. 1.What it does? 1.Loads data from SQL DIAG into a Database. 2.Wait Stat Analysis and Reports 3.Locking Blocking Analysis and Reports 4.Uses SSRS for reports 5.Uses Read Trace to Analyze server side traces. 1.Comes with RML Utilities 2.Used for analyzing and comparing traces SQL NEXUS For Data Analysis

8. SQL NEXUS Demo

9. Summary Use SQL DIAG to Collect DIAGnostic Data Use SQL NEXUS to Analyze Data Troubleshoot remote systems with ease. Mar-20089Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism

10. Links SQL NEXUS – http://sqlnexus.codeplex.com PerfStats - http://bit.ly/17ZJ1jPhttp://bit.ly/17ZJ1jP

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