At times I often want to know what is happening inside my SQL Servers, there are of course a multitude of ways I could "peek" into the activity that has been happening, Sometimes I just need to get a quick summary of those facts, maybe just to know if anything unusal has happened I'm not yet aware of, an easy way I can do that is to query the DMV sys.dm_os_performance_counters, As t here are tons of blog posts already out there on using the data from this DMV, I'm not going to focus...(read more)