Entries Published On September, 2016
I’ll Make Them an Offer They Can’t Refuse
Over the past few weeks I’ve been flexing my network to try and get on an Azure DW project…and so far I’ve come up empty handed. Now granted, I could definitely be wrong about this… but I *thought* my offer was overly generous and guaranteed to land me on an Azure DW project… “I will work …
How to Detect Locking and Blocking In Your Analysis Services Environment
This past weekend, after one of my presentations on Analysis Services at SQL Saturday 520, an attendee described a performance issue in his environment that he thought could be related to locking and blocking and asked if there was a way to confirm if this was the cause. The short answer is yes, absolutely! While …
Choosing the Right Instance in Perfmon
There’s been quite a bit posted on this blog regarding the collection of perfmon counters to monitor Analysis Services instances and troubleshoot performance problems. And some of the recommended perform counters (e.g. Process: % Processor Time) are “instance”-specific… meaning you need to select the name of the process for which you want to collect counter …