I use an sql server regularly and have recently been getting frustrated by the performance. It would be difficult for me to get direct access to find out the hardware so:
Is there a direct way in management studio to assess performance or find out the exact hardware.
Alternatively does someone have a set of test sql procedures I could try and ideally compare to other results to get an idea of it’s performance.
So far I have setup a few quick queries on my local machines sql express server just as test these seem to run quicker than the sql server on the network which is meant to be high performance although no one knows when it was last upgraded I have a feeling it hasn’t been for 6 or 7 years. Obviously these test don’t account for the possibility of others querying at the same time or network transfers of results… Hopefully someone has a better solution.
IF you are on 2005:
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters
That will give you some sql only stats. You will not find much info about the machine without at least terminal access. In the sql startup log you can see some info on processors as well.