In the previous parts of the SQL Server performance metrics series, we presented most important SQL Server memory metrics that indicate overall SQL Server memory pressure. The described metrics show how SQL Server uses memory and physical I/O to store, read and write data pages. In this part, we continue with SQL Server Buffer Manager metrics and memory counters Read more »

In the first part of this series, we started with most important SQL Server performance memory metrics. We described Pages/sec and Page faults/sec, what they indicated, and what the normal values were In this part, we will present three more memory metrics that affect SQL Server performance – Available memory bytes, Total server memory, and Target server memory Read more »

In the SQL Server performance basics article, we explained why performance monitoring was important and what you should consider before you start monitoring SQL Server performance Read more »