What’s New in Monitoring SQL Server Performance

Performance tuning and troubleshooting are time-consuming tasks for the administrator. To help provide insights quickly into performance issues, SQL Server 2014 provides some new and enhanced features for monitoring SQL Server performance. If you also install the System Center Monitoring Pack for MS SQL Server 2014, you will have a more enterprise visualization capability across multiple versions of SQL Server engines and other Service engines.

Extended Events were introduced in SQL Server 2008 as a lightweight mechanism that supports capturing, filtering, and acting on events generated by the server process. Extended Events provide a flexible and powerful way to provide a low granular level of ...

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