1. www.ExtremeExperts.com Connect with life www.connectwithlife.co.in Vinod Kumar Technology Evangelist | Microsoft http://blogs.sqlxml.org/vinodkumar www.ExtremeExperts.com

2. Session Objectives SQL Server is an ocean and this session will show some of the build-in features with SQL Tools We will also discuss some tools that ship with SQL Server but under-utilized We will also look at some free additions to the SQL arsenal that enhances our experience

3. www.ExtremeExperts.com Agenda !!! Context Setting Exploring Feature Gem 1 Gem 2 Gem 3 Gem 4 Gem 5 Demo, Demo and more Demo’s

4. www.ExtremeExperts.com Agenda !!! Context Setting Exploring Feature Gem 1 - SSMS Gem 2 Gem 3 Gem 4 Gem 5 Demo, Demo and more Demo’s

5. www.ExtremeExperts.com Gem 1 - SSMS SQL Server Management Studio New Options Activity Monitor New-Debugger Command-line invoke Object-Explorer Details View New Search Capability Grid-View Copy functionality Multi-Server Query Extra’s Performance Dashboards

6. www.ExtremeExperts.com SSMS – Management Studio !!!

7. www.ExtremeExperts.com Agenda !!! Context Setting Exploring Feature Gem 1 - SSMS Gem 2 - Profiler Gem 3 Gem 4 Gem 5 Demo, Demo and more Demo’s

8. www.ExtremeExperts.com Gem 2 - Profiler SQL Server – Profiler Command-Line attributes Data-Column Copy Save Execution Plan Blocked Process Threshold

9. www.ExtremeExperts.com Profiler

10. www.ExtremeExperts.com Agenda !!! Context Setting Exploring Feature Gem 1 - SSMS Gem 2 - Profiler Gem 3 - SQLDiag Gem 4 Gem 5 Demo, Demo and more Demo’s

11. www.ExtremeExperts.com Gem 3 - SQLDiag Previous Incarnation - PSSDiag Available in BINN folder Collect Diagnostic Information Configure to fire @ time Stop @ time A lot more options available ….

12. www.ExtremeExperts.com SQLDiag - Options

13. www.ExtremeExperts.com Agenda !!! Context Setting Exploring Feature Gem 1 - SSMS Gem 2 - Profiler Gem 3 - SQLDiag Gem 4 - TableDiff Gem 5 Demo, Demo and more Demo’s

14. www.ExtremeExperts.com Gem 4 - TableDiff TableDiff Available since SQL 2005 Use Replication techniques for help Great command line options Quick Row-count on differences

15. www.ExtremeExperts.com TableDiff – Command line utility

16. www.ExtremeExperts.com Agenda !!! Context Setting Exploring Feature Gem 1 - SSMS Gem 2 - Profiler Gem 3 - SQLDiag Gem 4 - TableDiff Gem 5 – SQLIOSim Demo, Demo and more Demo’s

17. www.ExtremeExperts.com Gem 5 - SQLIOSim SQL IO Simulator Out-of-box available Command-line and UI mode Stress testing hardware

18. www.ExtremeExperts.com SQLIOSim Tool

19. www.ExtremeExperts.com Summary !!! These are my Top 5 Hidden tools with SQL Server There are many more that we couldn’t cover this time inside each of the subsystems Keep exploring different ways to work with SQL Server and it will be fun !!!

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