Bringing It All Together with SQL Nexus - SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting - page 327

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Verify that .NET Framework 2.0 is installed on your machine. If you are unsure of the
.NET framework versions installed on your machine, then you can check if the
<system drive> \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64 folder (for 64-bit) or the
<system drive> :\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework contains the v2.0.*
folder on your machine.

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Use a SQL Server 2012 or lower database engine to import the collected data.

WARNING We do not recommend loading your collected data into a production
SQL Server instance as this would lead to resource intensive operations
associated with the import competing with your production workload.

Once you have fuli lled the preceding requirements, you can download the latest release from the
SQL Nexus page on CodePlex ( http://sqlnexus.codeplex.com/ ) and launch the tool using
sqlnexus.exe . No steps are required to install the tool. After launching it, you will be prompted to
provide the SQL Server instance name and the credentials to connect to the instance on which you
want to import the data. The default database for this tool is sqlnexus. Figure 12-1 shows the
landing page of the SQL Nexus tool.

FIGURE 12-1