Controlling Resources in SQL Server

Controlling Resources in SQL Server

Chris Testa-O’Neill – SQL Server MVP

Principal Consultant

Microsoft SQL Server and Azure Consulting

Who Am I?


Publications

AUTHOR

• Collection 6233AE: Implementing and Maintaining Business Intelligence in Microsoft SQL Server 2008

• Collection 2778BE: Querying and Modifying Data in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with Transact-SQL

• Collection 6369AE: Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft SQL Server 2008

• Collection 6370AE: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Database Development

AUTHOR/TECHNICAL REVIEWER

• Course 20467A: Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2012

TECHNICAL REVIEWER

• Course 10777A: Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012

• Course 10778A: Implementing Data Models and Reports with Microsoft SQL Server 2012

TECHNICAL REVIEWER

• Course 20463A: Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2014

• Course 20466A: Implementing Data Models and Reports with Microsoft SQL Server 2014

• Course 20467B : Designing Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2014

• Course 10977A: Updating Your SQL Server Skills to Microsoft SQL Server 2014


Agenda

•Resource Governor

•Policy-Based Management


Resource Governor• Monitor and manage the workloads on your SQL Server

system

• Enterprise Edition feature only

• Control CPU and memory usage specifically

• Works well with applications of similar requirements

• System Monitor Counters available

• DAC connection not subject to resource governor


Resource Governor Components

• Resource Pools represents the physical resources of the server

Internal and default

• Workload Groups serves as a container for session requests that are

similar

• Classification Function a set of user-written criteria contained in a function


Demo


Policy Based management

• Enforce the configuration of SQL Server On all editions for single instance

Enterprise and Standard for multiple instances

• Can be used to centrally managed multiple servers

• Can export and import policies

• Can evaluate policies


Policy Based management componentsComponent Description

Policy A SQL object that holds the information required to enforce a policy

Facet A facet is an object within a policy that is used to represent a SQL Server component

Target A SQL Server object such as an Instance or a database to which the policy is applied to

Condition Specifies a set of allowed states of a Policy-Based Management managed target with regard to a facet.


How policies are enforced

• Manually

• Scheduled

• On change prevent – (DDL triggers)

• On change log only – (event notifications)


Demo


Questions?


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Controlling Resources in SQL Server