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.

1. Presented to fwPASSon February 22, 2011 Management Data Warehouse

2. System consisting of a one or more collectors (Performance Data Collector), a management server (MDW), and reports. What is a Management Data Warehouse? Photo credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsalt/3276560707

3. Physical Warehouse Data Warehouse Database consisting of tables of data and access functions Database Tables Data records SSIS stored procedures/views Flat files/Agent job, Sproc/SSIS Reports Building that consists of racks or aisles of products Warehouse Racks Lots of products Forklifts for racking products And picking Trucks for transporting To And from warehouse What is a Management Data Warehouse? Photo credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsalt/3276560707

5. Performance Monitoring

6. Performance troubleshootingI/O CPU database growth What is it used for?

7. Factories make products (Other servers) Factories have small internal warehouses, shipping dock (temp cache) Products are shipped to warehouses (SSIS) Products are stocked on shelves in the warehouse (MDW) Consumers request products (MDW reports) Warehouses pick products from the shelves (DMV) Warehouses ship products to the consumer MDW as part of a system

9. Snapshots

10. Custom Snapshots

12. mdw_reader (read-only view of reports – *msdb exception)

13. mdw_writer (collection set upload to MDW)MDW components

15. Server Activity (every 60 seconds, upload every 15 min)

16. Query Statistics (every 10 seconds, upload every 15 min)

17. CustomData Collection Sets

18. Performance counters DMV’s SQL Trace T-SQL Data Providers

20. How much space? 400Mb/day/server

21. Editions? Enterprise, Data Center, *Standard

22. Backward compatibility? NoMiscellaneous

23. SSIS How does the data get into the warehouse? Photo credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjc4454/3414861981

25. Disk Usage

26. Query Statistics

27. Server ActivityReports offer drill-down to additional reports/information Reports

28. Configure MDW Configure collectors MDW schema msdb SQL Agent - Jobs Integration Services - SSIS packages Task Manager Cache files Collector reports MDW Overview report Demos

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31. Task Manager

32. Temporary Data Collector Cache

33. Disk Usage report

34. SSIS Packages

35. Hyper-V Server 2008

36. http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/learn-sql-server/sql-server-2008-performance-data-collector/ Additional Resources