heaviest utilized database on a server

  • I'm trying to categorize which databases on my database server are the most utilized for the purpose of splitting them out onto different disk drives. Is there a query against a DMV that could answer this for me?

    Thanks in advance,

    Rick Wenger.

  • See if sys.dm_exec_query_stats DMV helps you.

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  • I'd look at the amount of IO per database so try this

    --Calculating the Percentage of I/O for Each Database

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    WITH Agg_IO_Stats

    AS

    (

    SELECT

    DB_NAME(database_id) AS database_name,

    CAST(SUM(num_of_bytes_read + num_of_bytes_written) / 1048576.

    AS DECIMAL(12, 2)) AS io_in_mb

    FROM sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats(NULL, NULL) AS DM_IO_Stats

    GROUP BY database_id

    )

    SELECT

    ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY io_in_mb DESC) AS row_num,

    database_name,

    io_in_mb,

    CAST(io_in_mb / SUM(io_in_mb) OVER() * 100

    AS DECIMAL(5, 2)) AS pct

    FROM Agg_IO_Stats

    ORDER BY row_num;

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  • you might want to break that down further to database files so you can see data and log file activity, but anyway DMV sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats is the one you want, it will show read and writes as well. the values are since the last SQL restart.

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  • thanks a million!

  • Another approach below.

    SELECT SUM(deqs.total_logical_reads) TotalPageReads,

    SUM(deqs.total_logical_writes) TotalPageWrites,

    CASE

    WHEN DB_NAME(dest.dbid) IS NULL THEN 'AdhocSQL'

    ELSE DB_NAME(dest.dbid) END Databasename

    FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats deqs

    CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(deqs.sql_handle) AS dest

    GROUP BY DB_NAME(dest.dbid)

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