Dealing with long running SSAS Queries using PowerShell
So, your Analysis Services instance keeps eating all the memory on your server despite proper memory configuration? This happens when queries get too big for their britches - SSAS memory limits are basically soft limits. Whatever an active query requires in terms of resources, SSAS will attempt to provide it. Even if it has to page the entire operating system out to disk to do it. You can mitigate this with good cube design, better aggregations, user training, etc - but it's bound to happen. When your cube gets big enough, one of your users will blow the entire server up.
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