Short Introduction:

Dynamic management views and

functions return information that
can be used to monitor the health
of a server instance, diagnose
problems, and tune performance
I have found the following 8 DMV
and DMF very useful

Database Related:
•sys.dm_db_file_space_usage
•sys.dm_db_session_space_usage
•sys.dm_db_partition_stats
Execution Related:
•sys.dm_exec_query_stats
•sys.dm_exec_sql_text
Index Related:
•sys.dm_db_index_operational_sta

•sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats
•sys.dm_db_missing_index_colum
sys.dm_db_file_space_usage
Returns space usage information for
each file in database tempdb (not
available for other databases ). This
DMV is specially useful if tempdb
utilization is high
Example: display tempdb files, sizes and
page counts
select M.physical_name, M.size,
U.unallocated_extent_page_count,
U.user_object_reserved_page_count,
U.internal_object_reserved_page_count,
U.mixed_extent_page_count
from sys.dm_db_file_space_usage U join
sys.dm_db_file_space_usage
Example 2: returns the amount of free
space in tempdb
SELECT free_pages =
SUM(unallocated_extent_page_count),
Free_space_in_MB =
(SUM(unallocated_extent_page_count)/128.)
sys.dm_db_file_space_usage
sys.dm_db_session_space_usage

# of pages used by each SPID tempdb.

You can use this DMV to find the
session filling up tempdb.
Example: top five tasks consuming
most tempdb space
select top 5 session_id,
user_objects_alloc_page_count * 8 /
1024.0 [Allocated space in MB]
from sys.dm_db_session_space_usage
ORDER BY (user_objects_alloc_page_count
+internal_objects_alloc_page_count) DESC
sys.dm_db_partition_stats
returns space utilization within a
database. I found this DMV very
helpful to compute and report space
used by db objects
Example: determines space used by
objects
select convert(char(30),
object_name(object_id)),
sum(in_row_reserved_page_count)/128.,
sum(lob_reserved_page_count)/128.
from sys.dm_db_partition_stats
group by object_id
order by sum(in_row_reserved_page_count)
sys.dm_exec_query_stats
Returns aggregate statistics for
cached query plans.
This DMV contains 1 row/query within
cached plans.

** When a plan is removed from the

cache, the corresponding rows are
removed from this view.

I have some examples on the next

slides:
sys.dm_exec_query_stats …
CONTINUED
-- Cached SP's By Execution Count
SELECT TOP (25)
sp_name = qt.text ,
db_name = db_name(qt.dbid),
qs.execution_count AS 'Exec. Count',
Cpu = qs.total_worker_time
qs.max_logical_reads,
qs.max_logical_writes,
qs.total_physical_reads
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats AS qs
CROSS APPLY
sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) AS qt
ORDER BY qs.execution_count DESC;
sys.dm_exec_query_stats …
CONTINUED
-- Cached SP's By Logical Reads
SELECT TOP (25) sp_name = qt.text,
db_name = db_name(qt.dbid),
total_logical_reads,
qs.total_worker_time,
qs.total_logical_writes,
qs.total_physical_reads
qs.max_logical_reads,
qs.max_logical_writes
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats AS qs
CROSS APPLY
sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) AS qt
ORDER BY total_logical_reads DESC;
•sys.
dm_exec_sql_text( sql handle |plan_ha
*table valued function used along with
other DMVs to identify the sql text
specified by the sql handle
Example the below query returns the SQL
statement and average CPU time for the
top five queries.
SELECT TOP 5
avg_cpu = total_worker_time/execution_count,
Statement_text = st.text,
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats AS qs CROSS
APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) AS
sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats

Provides useful stats on how many

times an index has been used, locked,
waited on, etc.
Example on the next slide…
The below query provides information on
reads/writes to a table
select objectname=object_name(s.object_id),
indexname=i.name,
i.index_id,reads=range_scan_count+singleton_l
ookup_count,
writes = leaf_insert_count+leaf_update_count+
leaf_delete_count , nonleaf_insert_count +
nonleaf_update_count + nonleaf_delete_count
leaf_page_splits = leaf_allocation_count
from sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats
(NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL) s,
sys.indexes I where
objectproperty(s.object_id,'IsUserTable') = 1
and i.object_id = s.object_id
sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats

Found this query invaluable to fetch

size and fragmentation information for
the data and indexes of the specified
table.
Example:
select object_name(object_id) ,
avg_fragmentation_in_percent
from
sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats(null,null,
null,null,null)
where database_id = db_id('DBA_rep')
sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats
Returns query optimizer use of an
index in a plan. 
•Usage information is re-recorded each time
the plan is executed. 
• This DMV provides the following
information:
User seeks i.e. the number of times a query
was used to find a single row
User scans i.e. A range of values, or to
resolve a non-unique query
User_lookups if it has been used to resolve a
bookmark lookup and
User updates or how many changes were
sys.dm_db_missing_index_columns

Returns information about database

table columns that are missing an
index, excluding spatial indexes.
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