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About the Dashboard tab

The Dashboard tab provides an overview (approx. 70-80%) of the information displayed in other Precise for SQL Server tabs. The Dashboard is the starting point for your Precise analysis since it displays an overview of all the instances available in the selected application and information that is also available in some of the other tabs.

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See “About Precise for SQL Server tabs” on page 22, “About the Current tab” on page 55, “About the Activity tab” on page 74, “About the Objects tab” on page 105, “About the Statistics tab” on page 147, “About the SQL tab” on page 162, “About the Maintenance tab” on page 186, and “About the SmarTune tab” on page 203.

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How the Dashboard tab is structured

The Dashboard tab is divided into two areas—the Main area and the Instance Details area. The Main area lists all the instances that are monitored by the Precise for SQL Server Tier. The Instance Details area provides comparative information regarding the selected instance.

The information displayed in the Dashboard tab is influenced by the time frame you selected.See “Selecting a time frame” on page 29.

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About the Main area in the Dashboard tab

The instance table displayed in the Main area lists all the instances that are monitored by the Precise for SQL Server

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Availability    Average percentage of time the instance was available.

 

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About the Instance Details area in the Dashboard tab

Clicking on the various tabs in this area allows you to display overall activity, top performance findings, active sessions, current and statistical information for the selected instance. Clicking on the hyperlink for specific data items launches, in context, to the related tab from which the data was derived. See “Configuring Findings settings” on page 212.

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For more information about how you can identify specific performance problems, see “How the Dashboard can help you identify performance problems” on page 52.

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How the Dashboard can help you identify performance problems

You can identify a performance problem by doing one or more of the following:

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