azuredatastudio/samples/sp_whoIsActive

sp_whoisactive for SQL Operations Studio

Welcome to sp_whoisactive for SQL Operations Studio! Sp_whoisactive is a procedure written by Adam Machanic, a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server. It is a very useful tool for activity monitoring and troubleshooting. This extension provides the insights provided by this tool as graphs and tasks inside a SQL Operations Studio dashboard extension.

Tasks and insights:

Why use sp_whoisactive?

Here are some quick facts on Who is Active from Adam Machanic’s blog:

• Who is Active is a DMV-based monitoring stored procedure that uses 15 different views to show a large amount of data about what’s running on your server
• Who is Active was designed to be extremely flexible, and includes options to not only get different types of data, but also to change the output column list and sort order
• Who is Active was designed with performance in mind at every step; users report that under normal conditions response times are generally subsecond, with slightly longer response times on servers that are extremely taxed
• Who is Active is compatible with all versions of SQL Server after SQL Server 2005 RTM. It does require that the host database (generally master) is not set for SQL Server 2000 compatibility mode

Documentation:

If you haven't installed sp_whoisactive in your server, you can use the "Install sp_whoisactive" task to create the procedure.

See sp_whoisactive Documentation for more infomation.

Building your own insights and tasks

This extension is also useful as a sample dashboard extension. It demonstrates building a dedicated dashboard extension with a set of insights and tasks built in. You can get started building your own extension by following the extension authoring guide.

See sp_whoisactive extension project in the SQL Operations Studio for the extension source code.

Contributions and "thank you"

Special thank to Adam Machanic for partnering with us and make this sp_whoisactive extension possible.