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ThreePea
Yak Posting Veteran

83 Posts

Posted - 2006-01-04 : 11:29:44
Hey Everyone,

The SQLServer:Databases perfmon counter has two transaction-related counters:

Active Transactions: Number of active transactions for the database.
Transactions/sec: Number of transactions started for the database per second.

Those definitions make sense on a very superficial level, but I'm having trouble understanding what that means in real life. For instance, we are currently running at 1500 Transactions / sec, but only 1-2 Active Transactions.

How can we be starting 1500 transactions per second but only have 1 or 2 active at any given time? Unless the word "transactions" means something different to each counter.

Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks.

3P

Norwich
Posting Yak Master

158 Posts

Posted - 2006-01-04 : 11:50:39
Hi

I might be wrong about this but if your clients are connected to your db, aren't you going to pick them under "Transactions /sec" even if they are Dormant and if they are Active then they fall under "Active Transactions"?

Regards
N

If you want your computer to be faster then throw it out of the window.
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