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This site is maintained by Jason Massie. He has 10 years experience as a DBA and has specialized in performance tuning for the last five. He was recognized by Microsoft as a SQL Server MVP. Jason has spoken at the Professional Association of SQL Server Conference, the North Texas SQL Server Users Group, SQL Connections and TechED. He has worked at Terremark (formerly Data Return) for nearly a decade.
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This will be a quick and dirty post on data collection in SQL Server 2008. The next two posts will cover creating custom data collection sets and integrating reporting services. For a deeper understanding of data collections, check out Bill Ramos's web cast. He talks about it in this post.
Data collection is basically a separate application that collects data about your SQL Server 2008 server, stores in SQL Server and provides reporting. It is like some of those 3rd party applications by vendors like Quest and Idera. It is fairly simple in design. This will allow you to easily get up to speed and extend. That is where it may excel over the 3rd party products.
The moving parts include an executable called dcexe.exe, a warehouse database, SSIS, SQL Agent jobs and your data sources. The sources can be perfmon counters, DMV's,SQL traces and even application data. It was designed to minimize the stress on the source system but the warehouse database should reside on a different system.
This feature comes with 3(as of right now) system collections.
For a deeper discussion of this topic, please check out the web cast. The next post will demo setting up a custom collection. Part 3 will be on reporting off of the data collection.
posted @ Friday, February 15, 2008 12:45 AM by Jason Massie's SQL blog
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