Finding Transaction latency in an Always on Synchronous replica

1) Execute below query on your Always on Primary replica,

-- Create required objects to collect the data
use [Tempdb]
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('Perfcounters') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE Perfcounters
GO
CREATE TABLE Perfcounters
(CapturedTime DATETIME NOT NULL,
[Transaction Delay] BIGINT, [Mirrored Write Transactions/sec] BIGINT
)
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].Perfcounters
ADD [Transaction Delay in MS]
AS (convert(decimal(5,2),[Transaction Delay]*1.0/[Mirrored Write Transactions/sec]*1.0))
PERSISTED NOT NULL

2) Below query can be executed in a query window or as a SQL Server agent job in primary replica. Remember to change “Instance_Name=’Alwayson Database Name'” to appropriate Alwayson database name before executing the query,

use [Tempdb]
GO
set nocount on
while (1=1)
begin
insert into Perfcounters
SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as Time
,pt.* FROM(SELECT RTRIM(object_name) + ' : ' + counter_name CounterName
, cntr_value from sys.dm_os_performance_counters
where Instance_Name='Alwayson Database Name' and counter_name in ('Transaction Delay','Mirrored Write Transactions/sec')) as SourceData
PIVOT
(SUM(cntr_value)
FOR CounterName
IN ([SQLServer:Database Replica : Transaction Delay],[SQLServer:Database Replica : Mirrored Write Transactions/sec])
) pt
waitfor delay '00:00:03' -- Change this as per your requirement for collection
End

3) While the above query is getting executed from your query window or SQL Server agent job, you can execute the below query to get the latency values,

use [Tempdb]
GO
select * from Perfcounters order by CapturedTime desc

4) Remember to stop the query running as part of step 2 in this article on query window or as a SQL Agent job when not required.

Thank You,
Vivek Janakiraman

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