Black Belt Administration: Performance Dashboard for Microsoft SQL Server, Part I

Black Belt Administration: Performance Dashboard for Microsoft SQL Server, Part I: "As I state in BlackBelt Components: Manage Nulls in OLAP Reports and other articles of this subseries, the Black Belt articles represent an attempt to minimize the setup required in simply getting to a point within an article where we can actually perform hands-on practice with the component(s) or method(s) under consideration. I typically accomplish this by using existing report samples or other “prefabricated” objects that either come along as part of the installation of the applications involved, or that are otherwise readily accessible to virtually any organization that has installed the related components of the Microsoft business intelligence solution. In the Black Belt Administration articles, I focus upon procedures and tools that specifically relate to the job of the Reporting Services Administrator, versus report authors and other developers, although in many real world scenarios, as most of us are aware, these roles often intersect."