Monthly Archives: January 2016

System Stored Procedures

The following SQL Server System stored Procedures provide a Powerful alternative for many monitoring tasks:

  1.  Sp_who : Reports snapshot information about current SQL Server users and processes, including the currently executing statement and whether the statement is blocked.

2. sp_lock: Reports snapshot information about locks , including the object ID,       indexID,type of lock, and type or resource to which the lock applies.

3)  Sp_Spaceused :  Displays an estimate of the current amount of disk space used by a table .

4) Sp_Monitor : Displays statistics, including CPU usage , I/O Usage, and the amount of time idls since sp_Monitor was last executed.