Question : SQL server 2000 taking 50% cpu on dual core with SBS windows

Okay, this is clear SQL server 2K has no decent support for a multi-threading system.

How i can i see what MS SQL is doing?
This is on a Windows SBS  2003 Premium, so it doesn't come with a SQL Manager.

Seems i can't find any MS downloads to install a pure SQL Server manager.

I restarted the SBS Monitoring SQL service, and it solved the problem. Just out of curiosity, I've seen the same SQL behavior on other sbs systems before.

Thanks,
Pieter

Answer : SQL server 2000 taking 50% cpu on dual core with SBS windows

Hi,

Look at this series of articles:

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/articles/per/performance_audit_p1.aspx

The second one - SQL Server Hardware Performance Checklist -  is the best explaination of which counters to look at first, and what the numbers mean that I've seen.

If SQL is 'busy' and the cpu is high, then there may be other factors invovled which need addressing - disks, lack of memory etc.

Cheers
  David