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The MDW, in conjuction with the Performance Data Collector, is a comprehensive performance monitoring and reporting system introduced in SQL Server 2008. It is a handy way to consolidate performance monitoring data for all your servers on a single system.
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Presented to fwPASS on February 22, 2011
Management Data Warehouse
System consisting of a one or more collectors (Performance Data Collector), a management server (MDW), and reports.
What is a Management Data Warehouse?
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MDW
Server 1
Server 2
Server 3
Server 4
Server 5
Physical Warehouse Data Warehouse
Database consisting of tables of data and access functions
1. Database
2. Tables
3. Data records
4. SSIS
5. stored procedures/views
6. Flat files/Agent job, Sproc/SSIS
7. Reports
Building that consists of racks or aisles of products
1. Warehouse
2. Racks
3. Lots of products
4. Forklifts for racking products
5. And picking
6. Trucks for transporting To
7. And from warehouse
What is a Management Data Warehouse?
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• Baselining
• Performance Monitoring
• Performance troubleshooting• I/O
• CPU
• database growth
What is it used for?
Schemas
• Core
• Snapshots
• Custom Snapshots
• Sysutility (Utility Control Point)
Security Roles
• mdw_admin
• mdw_reader (read-only view of reports – *msdb exception)
• mdw_writer (collection set upload to MDW)
MDW components
• Disk Usage (collect and upload every 6 hours)
• Server Activity (every 60 seconds, upload every 15 min)
• Query Statistics (every 10 seconds, upload every 15 min)
• Custom
Data Collection Sets
Performance counters
DMV’s
SQL Trace
T-SQL
Data Providers
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• How many servers? 100+
• How much space? 400Mb/day/server
• Editions? Enterprise, Data Center,
*Standard
• Backward compatibility? No
Miscellaneous
SSIS
How does the data get into the warehouse?
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• Management Data Warehouse Overview
• Disk Usage
• Query Statistics
• Server Activity
Reports offer drill-down to additional reports/information
Reports
1. Configure MDW
2. Configure collectors
3. MDW schema
4. msdb
5. SQL Agent - Jobs
6. Integration Services - SSIS packages
7. Task Manager
8. Cache files
9. Collector reports
10.MDW Overview report
Demos
Website• www.systemental.com
• www.leanprojectmanager.com
Blogs• dean-o.blogspot.com• practicalhoshin.blogspot.com
Twitter• twitter.com/deanwillson
Email• [email protected]
LinkedIn• linkedin.com/in/deanwillson
Thank you!
Task Manager
Temporary Data Collector Cache
Disk Usage report
SSIS Packages
Hyper-V Server 2008
http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/learn-sql-server/sql-server-2008-performance-data-collector/
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