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SQL SERVER – 2008 – Activity Monitor is Empty – Fix Activity Monitor for All Users March 22,Windows 7 Professional, 2009 by pinaldave This article is outcome of the technical discussion of activity monitor and its behavior with my friend and SQL Expert Tejas Shah. Tejas told me that he does not like to re-write content from MSDN but rather prefer to write real life scenarios,Office Home And Student, as that prepares him to become better SQL Expert. While discussing about Activity Monitor he informed that activity monitor throws an error when there is permissions issue. He has even blogged about how to give permissions to user to launch activity monitor on his blog . Tejas asked me to write on the same subject for SQL Server 2008. Here is the article covering the discussion I had with Tejas.
I have user called ‘ActivityUser’ when turned on Activity Monitor (while logging in with user ActivityUser’) it does not have show anything in Activity Monitor.
The issue here is permissions issue. If user ActivityUser is given all the necessary permission it will start showing up data in Activity Monitor. Activity Monitor is new tool in SQL Server which displays activity in five sections. 1) Overview, 2) Processes, 3) Resources Waits,Windows 7 Activation, 4) Data File I/O,Office Standard 2010, 5) Recent Expensive Queries. It is one of the new and very useful tool introduced by SQL Server.
Activity Monitor captures all the information at server level. For the same reason we need to give “View Server State” permission to user name to view data of Activity Monitor.We can give permission either using T-SQL or using SSMS.
T-SQL to give permission to user to view Activity Monitor:
SSMS to give permission to user to view Activity Monitor:
Once permissions is given to user, it displays the data in Activity Monitor. Click on images to enlarge the images.
Additionally, note that if you are user belonging to sysadmin role,Office 2007 Activation, you can always see all the data in Activity Monitor without additional permissions.
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