Great article, these metrics are much better than those provided by the PerfMon. The "Signal waits" metric was new for me. I'd really appreciate it, if people

Great article, these metrics are much better than those provided by the PerfMon. The "Signal waits" metric was new for me. I'd really appreciate it, if people stop calling MS-SQL Server just SQL server. This way the title is a little misleading (to me), I was expecting a more generic article about obtaning SQL server metrics. PS. I do realize that this name is more or less accepted among the Microsoft oriented DBAs.