The Periodic Table of DMVs

One day, in the midst of experimenting with his My First Meth Lab kit, Tim Ford realized SQL Server’s dynamic management objects (DMOs/DMVs/DMFs) would make for a great periodic table.  And voila:

Activity Locking Cursors Transaction Snapshot Isolation Missing Indexes Index Usage Index Operational Stats Index Physical Stats Query Stats Plan Stats Change Data Capture Clustering Mirroring Replication Resource Governor General Performance Encryption SQLOS Auditing Server Info Referential Identity TempDB IO Waits Extended Events Stats Full Text Indexing CLR Filestream Service Broker XML

Click on areas of the Periodic Table of DMVs to get more information about those objects.

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