Download AWR Equivalent tools for MS SQL Server

AWR Equivalent tools for MS SQL Server:
Unfortunately there are several options to produce AWR “like” reports out of Windows and SQL Server
and it depends on the client environment as to what you can ask for, here is a high level list of the items
we would like to see:
OS CPU Utilization
OS Memory Utilization
OS Disk IO
SQL Server Top Waits
SQL Server Memory Utilization
SQL Server Disk Utilization
Top worst performing TSQL Statements and statistics (execution time, logical/physical reads, lock and
blocks etc..)
Locks
DeadLocks (Session details if possible)
And here are the options for getting the data:
Third Party Tools:
These tools (SQL Sentry, Toad, Embarcadero, SpotLight etc…) usually span all combination of
environments and can produce valuable reports.
Data Collection Tool:
This tool is available for SQL Server 2008 and up, it is a data collection tool leveraging the DMV (Dynamic
Management Views) with SQL Server to collect operational data and store in a Data Warehouse
database for reporting. Most installations do not use it but some do.
SQL Profiler:
Available on all instance of SQL Server 2000 and up, it is very useful but also very resource intensive and
usually not run in production environments without specific constraints or for a limit period of time.
Dynamic Management Views:
Available on SQL Server 2005 and above, using TSQL queries these views can provide a wide variety of
information.
Perfmon:
Available on all Windows servers, can gather OS operational counter as well as SQL Server counters if
the SQL Server counters are installed on the system.
Some homegrown tools:
Some DBA’s will use their own tools that are a combination of above or none of the above to gather
performance statistics and store them in a user database, later to be used for reporting.