SQL Server Manageability Team Blog : Webcasts

Performance Data Collector for SQL Server 2008 - Revealed

billramo — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:37:00 GMT

I’ve been getting many requests on what is this new Performance Data Collector tool and how does it work. First off, Performance Data Collector is simply a component as one of the tools in Management Studio (SSMS) involved in performance troubleshooting....(read more)

SQL Server Manageability Webcast - SP2 Improvements - Resources

Paul Mestemaker — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:55:00 GMT

Thank you to those who attended today's webcast. As promised, here are links to the resources associated with the demos. Downloads: SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/sp2.mspx SQL Server 2005 Feature Pack (February 2007): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=50b97994-8453-4998-8226-fa42ec403d17&displaylang=en...(read more)

SQL Server Manageability Webcast - SP2 Improvements

Paul Mestemaker — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:57:00 GMT

I'll be giving a webcast in one week on the manageability improvements introduced in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2. Feel free to post questions/comments to this blog that you'd like me to address during the webcast. ......(read more)

SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer - Webcast - Resources

Paul Mestemaker — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:15:00 GMT

Resources for today's webcast.

Webcast:

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032306503&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Upgrade Advisor Tool:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1470E86B-7E05-4322-A677-95AB44F12D75&displaylang=en

TechNet Webcast: Upgrade and Migration: Planning Considerations for SQL Server 2005 (Level 300)

Presenters: Michael Raheem and Euan Garden

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032292288&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Self-help resources from Microsoft:

http ://www.MicrosoftELearning.com/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/

Paul A. Mestemaker II

Program Manager

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer - Webcast

Paul Mestemaker — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 01:55:00 GMT

There will be a webcast on Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 9:30am on the next version of SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer. You can follow the link below to register for the event. I will try to address the questions and concerns that were brought up in previous blog entries. If you'd like to ask questions, you can do so during the Live Meeting or you can post a comment to this blog.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032306503&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Webcast: Using the SQL Server Upgrade Advisor and New SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer Tools (Level 200)

Start Time: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
End Time: Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

The webcast will have about 45 minutes of content. They have budgeted for 90 minutes, but I think 60 minutes is the sweet spot. Out of the 90 minutes, I will leave at least 30 minutes open for Q&A.

Paul A. Mestemaker II
Program Manager
Microsoft SQL Server

Overview of SSMS-E Webcast URLs and Code Snippets

billramo — Fri, 12 May 2006 17:59:00 GMT

As part of my web cast, there are several URLs and sample scripts that I’d like to share with you.

Demo 0 – Downloading.

The URL that I use to find the download site for SQL Server Express is to start at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/. It’s not direct, but it gets you close. Over in the right

column there is a link to the Express download. To get up and running with SQL

Server Management Studio Express, you only need to download the 38.5 meg

option – assuming that you already have the .NET Framework 2.0 installed. If you

want just about everything, download the “Install Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Express Edition with Advanced Services” 234 meg option.

Demo 4 – Templates

This is the starting script for the template to view backup history.

Use msdb;

SELECT backup_finish_date, name, user_name, backup_size

FROM backupset

WHERE (database_name = 'Pubs')

ORDER BY backup_finish_date DESC;

I then change the script to include the parameter for templates.

Use msdb;

SELECT backup_finish_date, name, user_name, backup_size

FROM backupset

WHERE (database_name = '<Database_Name, sysname, Database_Name>')

ORDER BY backup_finish_date DESC;

Demo 5 – User Instances

In preparing for the demonstration, I went to the readme file for SSMS-E and

discovered the query for determining if a user instance is running was wrong. The

correct query is as follows:

Use Master;

Select owning_principal_name, instance_pipe_name from sys.dm_os_child_instances;

To actually get the User Instance started, I needed to use the SSEUtil command

line program. You can find SSEUtil at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=FA87E828-173F-472E-A85C-27ED01CF6B02&displaylang=en. The command

Sseutil -l

Lists the databases installed with the User Instance.

To attach the Northwind database, I used the following command line.

sseutil -a northwnd.mdf Northwind

The –A switch is for the attach command. The MDF file follows – in this case – it

happens to be in the current directory. The final value on the command line is the

name of the database.

Demo 6 – Life without SQL Agent

To use SQLCMD to run a backup script, you can use the following on the command

line.

Sqlcmd –S .\sqlexpress –i “backup pubs.sql”

The –S switch specifies the server name and the –i switch is used for the input file.

When running with the windows scheduler, you will need the full path specifications

for SQLCMD and the script file. This is what I used.

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\SQLCMD.EXE" -S .\sqlexpress -i "c:\demo\Backup Pubs.sql"

Cheers,

Bill

Learn about SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMS-E) May 12 9am

billramo — Thu, 04 May 2006 05:30:00 GMT

Now that SQL Server Express and SQL Server Management Studio Express are out the door as part of the SQL Server 2005 SP1 release, it's time to take a close look at SSMS-E. I will be presenting a 60 minute web cast to show how the tools work great together. To register for this web cast, please go to the SSMS-E web cast registration page.

I hope to "see" you on line, May 12 at 9am PST.

Cheers,
Bill Ramos
Lead Program Manager, Relational Engine Manageability Team

Webcast - SQL Server 2005 Performance Troubleshooting and Tuning (Part 2 of 2)

HongfeiG — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:10:00 GMT

Here is the link to my presentation:

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032290644&Culture=en-US

The Demo scripts for this presentation can be found in the attachment.

Thanks,

Hongfei Guo

Note: The diagnosis scripts are missing from the zip file (Thanks Ed for letting me know). Unfortunately, the machine with those files has been re-imaged. Once I find time to re-work on the scripts, I will post them out. Thanks for your patience!

SQL Server 2005 Performance Troubleshooting and Tuning (Part 1 of 2) Webcast

Paul Mestemaker — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:15:00 GMT

Today I presented my first public webcast: SQL Server 2005 Performance Troubleshooting and Tuning. During the webcast, I promised that I would post references to the resources that were mentioned. See below for the links as well as the demo SQL scripts.

If you have any recommendations how we could make our webcasts better, we’re all ears. Please post comments on what you found interesting or potentially confusing about the webcast.

Please tune in for the second part of our series where Hongfei Guo will cover more resource bottlenecks: SQL Server 2005 Performance Troubleshooting and Tuning (Part 2 of 2).

Resources from today’s webcast...

Performance Troubleshooting Whitepaper:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/tsprfprb.mspx

Slava Oks' blog on SQL OS:

http://blogs.msdn.com/SlavaO/

Default Trace by Kalen Delaney:

http://www.sqlmag.com/Articles/ArticleID/48939/48939.html

-Paul

SQLCMD Webcast demo scripts & link

RameshS — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:24:00 GMT

Last month, as part of the TechNet Webcast: Manage SQL Server 2005 Using Command Line Tools and the SQLCMD Utility (Level 200) I had used a number of scripts for the demos. During the Q&A, number of attendees had requested access to these scripts. Thanks to Paul's efforts the SQLREM team now has its own blogs site & a hosting location for these scripts.

Attached below is a zip file containing the scripts to the 8 demos that we went thru during the webcast. Feel free to plagiarize these scripts to automate your own tasks & thanks for using SQLCMD to simplify your mundane tasks.

Thanks,
Ramesh Singh

Upcoming Webcasts by our team

billramo — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:55:00 GMT

Be sure to check out our upcoming webcasts on performance by Paul and Hongfei in April.

Tuesday - April 18 - 9:30 AM (PST) - Paul presents "SQL Server 2005 Performance Troubleshooting and Tuning (Part 1 of 2) (Level 200)"

This webcast is the first part of a two-part series that focuses on troubleshooting the performance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database engine. This webcast describes techniques to diagnose some of the CPU and memory resource consumption issues by using dynamic management views (DMVs), performance counters (perfmon), and SQL Trace.

Thursday - April 20 - 9:30 AM (PST) - Hongfei presents "SQL Server 2005 Performance Troubleshooting and Tuning (Part 2 of 2) (Level 200)"

This second webcast of a two-part series also focuses on troubleshooting the performance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database engine.

Cheers,
Bill