SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard

  • Does anyone know of a way of resetting the counters that the SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard uses without resetting SQL Server?

    Thanks,

    John

  • That's a great question, but I don't think many of them can be reset. They all come from counters stored in virtual tables in SQL Server and most of those can't be reset without a restart, at least I've not heard of that.

    What are you looking to reset?

  • We use the aggregate counters for performance statistics after changes are made to the application databases. We would like to reset them after changes are deployed. It would be best if we could reset it without restarting the services. This way we can compare the previous dashboard results with results after the change and there's no down time to the customer.

    Thanks,

    John

  • You can reset the latch and waiit stats counters.

    DBCC SQLPERF

    (

    [ LOGSPACE ]

    |

    [ "sys.dm_os_latch_stats" , CLEAR ]

    |

    [ "sys.dm_os_wait_stats" , CLEAR ]

    )

    [WITH NO_INFOMSGS ]

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189768(SQL.90).aspx

    MJ

  • Thanks for the info, I'm kind of surprised there's not some DBCC command to just reset them all. Perhaps there's a good reason...

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