I was just checking the DMVs in SSAS 2008 CTP6 to see if they had changed between CPT5 & 6. Particularly in regard to the list of limitations that Vidas posted. As far as I can tell the only thing that appears to have changed is that ''SELECT DISTINCT'' now appears to work. Technorati Tags: Analysis Services, DMV

Following along on my recent theme of exploring the metadata rowsets and the new Dynamic Management Views (DMV) in SSAS 2008. I have added a new DMV function to the Analysis Services Stored Procedure project (www.codeplex.com/ASStoredProcedures) which is included in the v1.2 release that I put out just before Christmas. This all started off when ...

The system DMV sys.dm_os_schedulers is an useful DMV to find such as running tasks & active workers threads etc. This is required to monitor the system state is heavily loaded or not, in particular this view will help you identify if there is any CPU bottleneck in the SQL Server machine. SELECT ...

Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition & SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition Notification Contents: New and Major Modifications FIX: An access violation may occur, and you may receive an error message, when you query the sys.dm_exe_sessions dynamic management view in SQL Server 2005 ...

Dynamic Management Views (DMV) are very useful to get server state information to monitor the status, but not always you have to still continue in monitoring using SYSMON & PROFILER that are available by default with SQL installation. The engine within SQL Server 2005 improves accuracy by using the high-resolution counters that are capable to ...

As this is the 2nd instalment of public CTP of SQL Server 2008 we will be expecting more information on 'whats new' and 'whats not (deprecated)'. For me (majority of you too) having handful information with DMVs is essential, in this regad we have 5 new DMVs available with this CTP, here they are: sys.dm_os_memory_brokers This DMV is helpful to ...

Got the below script from PSS when we were dealing with a support case to identify the root cause for Scheduler errors during a performance loss & exception errors exercise: select scheduler_id, current_tasks_count, runnable_tasks_count, current_workers_count, active_workers_count, work_queue_count, load_factor from sys.dm_os_schedulers where ...

UPDATE STATISTICS is very helpful to get the performance by updating the distribution of key values for one or more statistics groups or set of collections in the specified table or indexed view. So how this is handled within the SQL Server, you may be aware that SQL 2000 version uses a counter (rowmodctr) to track row modification and within SQL ...

Have you ever identified the reasons for why and how does a query execution timeout happens within your SQL Server environment. For the beginners I would like to explain that b efore executing a query, SQL Server estimates how much memory it needs to run and tries to reserve this amount of memory from the buffer pool. If the reservation succeeds ...