No SQL Performance Counters

  • I am trying to monitor a newly installed version of SQL Server 2000 Standard edition on Windows 2000 Server and am not seeing any of the SQL: objects under the Performance object list in perfmon.  Has anyone else seen this before?  If so, how do I go about adding these counters?

    Thanks

  • This happened to me on two servers after I modified the start up accounts.  Here is a link that has some good information.

    http://www.extremeexperts.com/sql/FAQ/EnablingPerCounters.aspx

    In my case, I had to start at step 4 to solve the problem.

    Aunt Kathi Data Platform MVP
    Author of Expert T-SQL Window Functions
    Simple-Talk Editor

  • I had this a fair while ago now.

    It can also happen if the SQL Services are restarted too quickly. I use sysinternals regmon and procexp and saw that that WMI (and/or SNMP, I'm not sure now) was hooked into that very same reg key, thence the sqlctr80.dll (or whatever it's called) and locked out access to the SQL service account.

    I just bounced the SNMP (amd/or WMI) services along with SQL if I had to until tehe fix below.

    See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812915 to get this hotfix.Note the build number - it was broke in SP3a and fixed very quickly. It's in SP4 BTW.

    I'd recommend Hotfix 818/819 at the very least (pre-requisite for some MS software these days such as SQLH2 and reporting Services) and this doesn't need a acall to MS to get it. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826161 (819 is client side fix, 818 is server)

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