A Solution for Collecting Analysis Services Performance Data From Many Sources For Performance Analysis (Free)

Solution for Collecting Analysis Services Performance Data for Performance Analysis at  http://www.codeplex.com/SQLSrvAnalysisSrvcs. File - MonitoringSSAS.zip

This codeplex solution automates the collection of SQL Server 2008 performance data from any or all of the following data sources ans stores the collected data into a single SQL Server 2008 relational database:

• SQL Server Profiler Analysis Services trace data
• Performance Monitor counters
• Analysis Services Dynamic Memory Views (DMVs)

This data is collected using an Analysis Services server-side trace, several Integration Services packages, a custom performance monitor collector in Management Data Warehouse, and Transact-SQL stored procedures. This codeplex project also include sample Reporting Services reports utilizing SQL Server stored procedures that correlate and analyze the collected data.These reports enable you to:

• Determine your slowest MDX queries for a specified time period
• Compare the performance of a specified query during different time periods
• Analyze a specific query to determine if it is storage engine or formula engine bound, to view the aggregations utilized, the number of subcubes and the number of partitions
• Analyze processing performance
• Correlate performance monitor counters with the execution of a specific query or processing operation
• Correlate DMVs with the execution of a specific query or processing operation

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Note from Vidas Matelis: This version relies on SSAS DMVs - new feature introduced in the SQL Server 2008.