title: Performance monitoring sql server and not logging onto the server
body: <p>A book I was reading, on sql server 2008, mentions how you should not directly logon to the db server to do performance monitoring etc.</p>
  
  <p>This begs the question, what is the best way to do this task without going on the server? Run jobs? Through some sort of command prompts?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>