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Logging Performance Monitor Counters to SQL Server - Part 1




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There are 4 parts to this article:
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4

On Windows Server 2003, Perfmon counters can be logged directly to a SQL database. Let's do that. Create a database on your SQL Server. We called the database pmon:



We'll create a device for the database with 50 megs and allow it to grow to 100 megs. Yours will certainly be larger:



Here are the database properties of pmon:



Performance monitor needs to connect to the database via an ODBC connection. Let's create a new SQL Server ODBC data source:



Fill in the name for the data source and the SQL server:



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