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SQL Server Analysis Services 2012 Cube Development Cookbook

You're reading from   SQL Server Analysis Services 2012 Cube Development Cookbook If you prefer the instructional approach to a lot of theory, this cookbook is for you. It takes you straight into building data cubes through hands-on recipes, helping you get to grips with SQL Server Analysis Services fast.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849689809
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Multidimensional Data Model Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Defining Analysis Services Dimensions 3. Creating Analysis Services Cubes 4. Extending and Customizing Cubes 5. Optimizing Dimension and Cube Processing 6. MDX 7. Analysis Services Security 8. Administering and Monitoring Analysis Services 9. Using Tabular Models 10. DAX Calculations and Queries 11. Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting Tabular Models A. Miscellaneous Analysis Services Topics Index

Monitoring SSAS instance using DMVs


In the previous section you learned about a few DMVs referenced by Activity Viewer. Analysis Services supports many other DMVs not used by Activity Viewer. You can query DMVs directly using the SSMS or ASCMD command-line utility.

How to do it...

You can query DMVs by executing simple SELECT statements in the MDX query window within SSMS by performing the following steps:

  1. Navigate to FILE | New | Analysis Services MDX Query.

  2. Connect to your SSAS instance as an administrator.

  3. Paste the DMV queries you captured using SQL Server Profiler (see the previous section, Monitoring SSAS instance using Activity Viewer). The SELECT statements that you can use for querying DMVs are somewhat limited:

    • You can only query one DMV at a time and cannot join multiple DMVs.

    • You can extract a subset of all the rows by specifying the TOP keyword and the ORDER BY clause.

    • You can extract a subset of all the columns by explicitly listing column names or get all the columns using the star...

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