Tag Archive For "SSAS"
Analysis Services Class Libraries
References to these libraries are required when writing .NET applications that interface with Analysis Services. However, as I’m not a serious .NET developer (thank god! /jk /sortof) I don’t use them that much. But when I do, I usually waste the first 10 minutes searching for it in windows explorer before giving up and wasting another 5-10 minutes bingl’ing …
Performance Monitoring for SSAS – Extended Events Cheat Sheet
Welcome back! This is the 3rd post in a series of posts focusing on performance monitoring for Analysis Services. Performance Monitoring for SSAS – Intro Performance Monitoring for SSAS – Data Collection Performance Monitoring for SSAS – Extended Events Cheat Sheet Performance Monitoring for SSAS – Perfmon Counter Cheat Sheet Performance Monitoring for SSAS – …
Ever wondered what’s captured in the SSAS Flight Recorder?
During a recent engagement involving an Analysis Services health assessment, one of the things I noted was that the Flight Recorder was enabled. During the post-assessment review with the client, where we walked through the report and recommendations, I quickly explained what the Flight Recorder was, why it should be disabled (answer: never used, wasted …
Performance Monitoring for Analysis Services – Data Collection
Welcome back! This is the second post in a series of posts focusing on performance monitoring for Analysis Services. Performance Monitoring for SSAS – Intro Performance Monitoring for SSAS – Data Collection Performance Monitoring for SSAS – Extended Events Cheat Sheet Performance Monitoring for SSAS – Perfmon Counter Cheat Sheet Performance Monitoring for SSAS – Extracting …
3 Methods for Shredding Analysis Services Extended Events
Troubleshooting Analysis Services performance issues is hard. In complex and/or high concurrency environments (e.g. scale-out solutions) it can be a nightmare. Throw in a transient issue (i.e. one that can’t be reproduced on command or at some predictable time) that only occurs in production and you’re only option is to fire up some traces and …
Quickly Analyze Large Objects in #SSAS Databases with WinDirStat
There are tons of solid free tools out there that make life much easier for SSAS developers. A while ago, I blogged about the Top FREE tools for SSAS 2012 Developers most of which I still use on a daily basis. But even that list is getting a bit stale with some new heavy hitters …
Troubleshooting #SSAS Performance Issues
For the past 2 years, I’ve spent quite a bit of time across several clients addressing performance issues with Analysis Services solutions. Now that may sound like your own personal hell, and I totally understand why. Analysis Services is complicated enough just to get it off the ground and into production. Throw in a few performance …
Performance Monitoring for Analysis Services – Part1
One of the really cool benefits of being a Linchpin Teammate, besides working with some wicked smart SQL-people, is getting to participate in the Notes From the Field series over at site SQLAuthority.com. Note: SQLAuthority.com is a site that was built by Pinal Dave (b | t) and has become one of the (if not …
SSAS Tabular, Telerik, Multi-Value Parameters with DAX
Earlier this summer, I started working with a new client to develop the next version of their reporting platform. This client already had the reporting requirements and good jump start on the underlying data model but had run into some serious performance issues when trying to report directly from the relational data model using stored procedures. After some …
Automating SSAS Dump Collections using SQLDumper.exe
Last year I was involved with standing up an Analysis Services Scale-Out Query Server architecture to handle a heavy concurrent user load. Unfortunately, we didn’t get around to stress-testing the system until a few months later and we uncovered an issue requiring escalation to Microsoft. In this post, I’ll share a few details about the issue …