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SQL Diagnostic Manager provides the following new features and fixed issues:

10.2.3 New Features

No new features for this version.

10.2.3 Fixed Issues

Installation and Upgrade                                                                               

• The reported issues when re-installing SQL Diagnostic Manager with a pre-existing repository, have been solved.
• The ongoing SSL errors when attempting to install SQL Diagnostic Manager have been solved for this version.
• The Unable to monitor error "Error interpreting Job Alerts Collector: Invalid column name 'job_last_run_duration'."  is no longer displaying when running an upgrade.
• SQL Diagnostic Manager now correctly displays historical snapshots after upgrading.

Analysis

• SQL Diagnostic Manager now correctly displays accurate results when running an Analysis.       

Availability Groups

• SQL Diagnostic Manager now correctly connects to Availability Group listeners, and monitoring AlwaysOn instances.

Graphs

• The Session Statistics graph is no longer having issues showing the Y-axis values of the Transactions per Minute graph.

WMI

• The reported problem of WMI not being available on some servers has been fixed.

Dashboard

• IDERA Dashboard is no longer reporting maintenance mode status in actively monitored instances.
• The IDERA Dashboard is displaying data in the Queries view screen, the message "No Data Available. Please try after some time" is no longer showing.
• The IDERA Dashboard is now allowing access to the web console through domain groups and individual accounts.
• Users are no longer having issues when they manually register SQL Diagnostic Manager in the Dashboard.

Services

• The error displayed in the desktop console, when users were trying to connect to the SQLdm Management service, has been fixed.
• SQL Diagnostic Manager is now correctly firing alert emails when the SQLdm Collection service is down.

Metrics                    

• The changes that users applied to the metrics in the default templates are no longer causing errors.

Grooming

• SQL Diagnostic Manager is no longer displaying erroneous time-range data in the ChangeLog and is complying the user grooming configuration.
• The DatabaseFileStatistics grooming is running as expected and it has stopped timing out.

SQLDM Mobile

• The reported problem when running queries in SQLDM Mobile is no longer an issue in Chrome and other browsers.

Alert Rules and Alert Responses

• SQL Diagnostic Manager now correctly generating emails for all the configured Alert Rules that has the "Where metric severity has changed" option enabled.
• SQLDM is now sending alerts to SCOM for the metrics and severities specified in the rule, without disruption.
• The Alert Response "Send all Alerts to Scom as Alerts" is no longer having issues when the default configuration is changed.
• When the default configuration is changed in the Alert Response "Send all Alerts to SCOM as Alerts", these changes are correctly applied and work as expected.

Alerts

• SQL Diagnostic Manager is notifying the user by email when the alert "Blocking Session Wait Time" has a critical status.

Other issues

• The Sessions, Queries, and Query Waits screens in the desktop console are displaying data normally.             
• The errors in the details of a Deadlock occurrence caused by an "intra-query parallelism deadlock" have been fixed.
• SQLDM now correctly displays query data statements. All queries are matching up with their associated databases.                   
• The error: "Key already exists, Parameter name key (Infragistics2.Shared.v10.3)" is no longer displaying when removing the Details column in the Signature Mode screen located in the Query Monitor.             
• The problem that users had when creating custom dashboard in the SQL Diagnostic Manager web console, has been solved.
• The friendly names are no longer being removed by SQL Diagnostic Manager.

10.2.2 New features

Cluster environment

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• The Query plan information is collecting and populating to the Dashboard without problems

Metrics

• The "Availability Group Role Change" metric is generating alerts and notifying users by beeper and email alerts. This metric is generating OK status and working as expected.

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• Users are no longer getting the "The stored procedure 'p_GetDiskSizeDetails' doesn't exist (System.Data)" error, when they go to the Disk Size screen located in the Resources tab of the desktop console.

Availability Groups

• The availability groups historical views are displaying accurate information. The Availability Group is no longer having issues when browsing back to previous snapshots.

Alerts

• The alerts status is working as expected when the metrics are set to run alerts in specific thresholds values.

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The Sessions Details view and the Locks view are displaying normally. The “Sysadmin privileges to obtain data for this view” message is no longer showing in these views.

Grooming

SQL Diagnostic Manager is no longer displaying false grooming alerts.

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An issue that caused CPU spikes on the primary node of a monitored Always On availability group has been fixed.

Alerts

SQL Diagnostic Manager is no longer reporting problems when displaying alerts and snapshots.

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The "Unable to monitor" alert related to the following description: "[Server Name]Error interpreting Job Alerts Collector: Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition. [Server Name] Error executing Job Alerts collector: Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition" is no longer displaying after an upgrade.

Services

The high memory consumption and the constant crashing of the SQLdm Collection service and the SQLdm Management service are no longer occurring.

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10.1.4 Fixed issues

Alerts

• To provide a clearer understanding of what the “Distribution Latency (Seconds)” metric is measuring, the description of the metric and summary of raised alerts has been updated.
• SQLDM is now displaying Informational Alerts for SQL Server Agent Long Running Jobs.
• SQLDM is displaying alerts in Dashboard and the desktop console regardless the ‘Region and Language’ settings.
• "Days since last backup" alert is being triggered considering the threshold values configured in the alert configuration template.
• When the log file is filled up in a database, the Log Full (Percent) alert is being triggered normally and the LogSizeInKilobytes and PercentLogSpace columns are not showing NULL value when the log percent retrieved is greater than 100%.
• The exception filter wildcard is working normally and is no longer causing undesired alerts.
• The Filegroup Space Full (Percent) alerts for filegroups that are on the same disk are showing the correct values for the space full percentage.
• The number of days since last backup are now correctly displayed for daily backups databases. SQLDM is now generating the “Days since last backup” alert for databases that include a space at the end of the database name.

• SQLDM is no longer receiving continuous OK status alerts for the Log Full (Percent) and Database Full (Percent) metrics.

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• Alert Response triggers normally when a server is added to a tag.

Availability Groups

• The "Days since last backup" metric is now checking the backup preferences of databases participating in an Availability Groups prior to raising alerts. 
• SQL Server Agent jobs created for SQLDM are no longer encountering errors on secondary nodes when the SQLDM repository is hosted in an availability group.
• When a member of a database is on a read-only role, SQLDM is no longer displaying critical alerts on the Availability Groups databases.

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• The Custom Counter SQL Script text window is resizing to the popup window size.

Dashboard

• The Dashboard and SQLDM are reflecting the same per-database data size usage.
• The error "Something unexpected happened Java.Null.Pointer exception" is caused by a compatibility issue between products in the IDERA Dashboard is no longer displaying.
• In the IDERA Dashboard overview, the SQLDM Instances status widget is no longer having issues displaying the number of servers or the status of the servers. A compatibility issue among IDERA products within IDERA Dashboard caused this issue.

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• SQLDM is no longer having issues collecting log errors with a Severity higher than 21.

Graphs

• All graphs are displayed correctly and with all the information complete.

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• Date/Time values stored in the SQLDM repository database are stored in GMT format. The SQLDM web console now converts the GMT format to the local time zone.
• The SQLDM web console is no longer displaying deleted databases.
• The Sessions view in the SQLDM web console is displayed with no errors.
• Instances in Maintenance Mode are no longer displaying health status or alerts in the web console.

Other issues

• SQLDM is no longer having timeouts when viewing large Databases under table and indexes.
• SQLDM displays tables normally without delays.
• The “Days since last backup” metric is only available for Online databases.
• The index DatabaseStatistics has been added to the UTCCollectionTime nonclustered index for a better performance.
• The IDERA Products option in Help Menu on the SQL Diagnostic Manager Desktop Console is linked to the navigation page and is no longer prompting error.
• SQLDM is no longer having issues when using a non-standard Short Date format.
• The Monitored SQL Server Properties dialog box in SQLDM Desktop console is opening without any timeouts.

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The Prescriptive Analysis is no longer encountering the ‘Error converting data type nvarchar to float’ error while saving the collected data into the SQLDM repository database.

Grooming

SQLDM  is now grooming the DatabseFileStatistics table in the SQLDM repository database.

Alerts

The Alerts pane is no longer having issues loading any active alerts due to a timeout with the query being issued against the SQLDM repository database. This query has been optimized to retrieve the list of active alerts in a timely manner.

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• An issue causing Query Monitor to be disabled after Maintenance Mode no longer occurs.

Alerts

• There are no longer any issues preventing alert templates from being edited after making changes in the "Days since last backup" metric configuration.
• There are no longer any issues causing operational query monitor alerts to be triggered repeatedly due to an XML parsing error in SQL Diagnostic Manager.
• The Days since last backup alert now works seamlessly in an availability group environment.
• The Days since last back up alert is no longer triggered for database snapshots.
• The Days since last back up alert is no longer triggered for mirrored databases.
• There are no longer any issues preventing alerts from being triggered properly in the desktop console after upgrading SQL Diagnostic Manager.
• The details section of the Alerts view now displays the full list of recorded error log messages for SQL Server Error Log alerts.
  

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  An issue preventing filegroup statistics to be saved to the SQL Diagnostic Manager Repository, no longer occurs. This issue was specific to filegroups aiming at Mount Point drives.
  

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  An issue causing the Filegroup Space Full (percent) alert to trigger with higher than normal percentage values after upgrading to SQL Diagnostic Manager 9.1, no longer occurs.

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  An arithmetic overflow error causing the Query Waits view of the SQL Diagnostic Manager Management console to display an empty pane, no longer occurs.

Alerts

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  This release fixes an issue that caused fragmentation alerts to trigger without updating the latest value returned in the Databases > Table & Indexes view, resulting in false alerts.

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  An issue preventing users from receiving critical Database Full (Percent) alerts no longer occurs.

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  This release fixes an issue where SQL Diagnostic Manager triggered a false unable to monitor SQL Server status alert when an invalid or nonexistent SPID was found during collection.

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  This release fixes an issue where SQL Diagnostic Manager triggered false critical Database Full (Percent) alerts for several servers when the actual values were much lower and did not require an alert notification.

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  An issue in the SCOM Management pack, preventing users from discovering the SQL Diagnostic Manager Repository when it contained unexpected NULL values, no longer occurs.

WMI

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  An issue causing RPC errors on servers with FQDN and the WMI collection method enabled, no longer occurs.

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  An issue in the Queries tab and corresponding Statement mode, Signature mode and query history views, causing queries exported into Excel to truncate, no longer occurs.

Alerts

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  This release fixes an issue that prevented users from knowing when Repository grooming had timed out.  SQL Diagnostic Manager 9.0 includes a new alert SQLdm Repository Grooming Time out that notifies users when SQL Diagnostic Manager no longer deletes stored metrics in the Repository at the set schedule.  To configure this alert access the Alert Configuration window.

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• An issue causing Data File Spaced Used and Log File Space Used values in the Overview > Details view to vary from the real server values no longer occurs.
• This release fixes an issue where the number of sessions displayed in the Sessions > Details view, after applying the Affecting Tempdb only filter, does not match the number of sessions in the Databases >Tempdb Summary view.
• An issue preventing disk drive statistics to return in the Disk view of the Resources tab no longer occurs.
• This release fixes an issue that caused the Query waits and Query History views to lag displaying data when the frequency of how often the console refreshes data was modified in the Tools > Console Options window.
• SQL Diagnostic Manager is designed to return the information that you want to view in the Signature Mode, Statement Mode, and Query History views through filters. However, the filter Exclude Currently Running Queries that excludes data returned with null values is not applicable to the Query History view and is now disabled by default.

Alerts

• An issue issue causing OS Disk Full (Percent) alerts to trigger for disk drives previously excluded from alerting in the Alert Filters tab of the Advanced Configuration window no longer occurs.
• This release fixes an issue impeding the Deadlock Sessions report with detailed deadlock information to display when right-clicking (Show Deadlock Details) or double-clicking over a deadlock alert in the Alerts view. Note that after upgrading to our latest version it is not possible to view deadlock details for alerts generated in SQL Diagnostic Manager 8.5 since this issue prevented deadlock information from being stored.
• This release fixes an issue impeding the Blocking Sessions report with detailed blocking and blocked sessions’ information to display when right-clicking (Show Block Details) in the Alerts view, double-clicking over a Block report in the Blocking view, or clicking the Show Block Details link in the Details section of the Alert view. Note that after upgrading to our latest version it is not possible to view block details for alerts generated in SQL Diagnostic Manager 8.5 since this issue prevented block information from being stored.
• An issue impeding new custom counters to be added in the Administration tab is solved.

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• This release fixes an issue present after upgrading to SQL Diagnostic Manager 8.5 with custom counters that had customized categories. This issue caused a .NET framework error and the SQL Diagnostic Manager Console to crash when clicking any monitored server.

Dashboard

• An issue preventing the Lock Waits and Tempdb panels from displaying in a customized Dashboard view no longer occurs.

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• An issue causing settings in the Monitored SQL Server Properties window to revert no longer occurs.
• This release fixes an issue in deadlock data collection that caused discrepancies in the UTCCollectionDateTime.
• An issue causing SQL Diagnostic Manager to display an error on the monitored SQL Server 2014 instance when expanding the databases node, no longer occurs.
• Some users may experience Windows console crashes, applying the Microsoft update 2919355 solves this issue. For additional information on this solution, see the Microsoft knowledge base articles:
  • Out of memory when you load some image resources in a Windows application.
  • Platform update for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Alerts

• An issue preventing cluster failover alerts to be triggered no longer occurs in SQL Diagnostic Manager 8.5.
• An issue preventing SQL Diagnostic Manager to update statistics for some monitored SQL servers that triggered a persistent alert ‘Unable To Monitor’ no longer occurs in version 8.5.

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An issue causing errors related to fragmentation collector timeouts or fragmentation statistics collection in the Tables & Indexes view no longer occurs.

Services

This release fixes an issue caused when the collector for the SQL Agent Jobs View could not interpret null values, resulting in job and job steps collection errors.

Alerts

• The transactions (Per Second) metric now displays correctly in the History Browser when user selects a historical snapshot.
• This release fixes an issue where after modifying the advanced configuration settings of the SQL Server Status alert, the Lowered to OK status still showed.

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The Query Waits feature is no longer located on the Resources tab but now is available on the Queries tab. For additional information about Query Waits, see View Query Waits.

Alerts

Manage how the SQL Diagnostic Manager Console responds to alert notifications

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• SQL Diagnostic Manager no longer pauses data point creation in other real-time panels when the user accesses the Timeline view.
• This release fixes an issue caused when the scheduled refresh did not successfully complete, resulting in missing History Browser snapshots.
• The SQL Server Plan Cache object no longer continues to grow with SQL Diagnostic Manager queries even with the SQL Server Optimize for ad hoc workloads server configuration option selected.
• The SQL Diagnostic Manager Powershell plug-in now properly puts monitored SQL Server instances into maintenance mode when selected.

Alerts

• The Autogrow alert no longer displays the same previous and current data file size when viewing alert details in the Alerts view.
• SQL Diagnostic Manager no longer dismisses certain alerts when SQL Diagnostic Manager generates an Unable to Connect, Unable to Monitor, or Paused alerts. These alerts include SQL Server Agent job alerts, VM Host Server Change, VM Resource Configuration Change, Mirroring Server Role Change, and Cluster Failover alerts.
• SQL Diagnostic Manager no longer displays an incorrect percentage in the Database Full (Percent) alert.
• SQL Diagnostic Manager no longer delays generation of some Oldest Open Transaction alerts until the transaction is significantly older than the alert threshold. The alert now triggers immediately when the transaction crosses the threshold.
• An issue preventing some users from monitoring multiple instances and causing job completion error alerts no longer occurs.

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• SQL Diagnostic Manager no longer displays the error message, "The given key was not present in the dictionary," when a user attempts to view Server Waits.

Alerts

• SQL Diagnostic Manager custom counters now properly trigger alert responses.
• Deadlock and Autogrow alerts no longer persist after the triggering condition is resolved.

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• A user interface update fixed an issue causing some Microsoft Windows 7 users to see a cut-off Search window in the Log tab.

Alerts

• SQL Diagnostic Manager and the Windows Event Log now both show accurate metrics for the OS Disk Free Space (Size) alert.

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• An issue in the SQLdm Management Service causing some VM statistics to not display for monitored virtual SQL Server instances no longer occurs.

Dashboard

• An issue causing the CPU Dashboard panel to display 0 when a greater value should appear no longer occurs. This issue was caused by SQL Diagnostic Manager switching from one counter to another at certain refresh rates when calculating CPU values.

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• SQL Diagnostic Manager no longer displays restore activity on the original database instead of the destination database. Now the destination database includes any restore information.

Services

• The SQL Agent Jobs list now retains the open (+) and closed (-) settings after a refresh. This list also remains on the same row after a refresh and no longer jumps to the top of the list.
• An issue causing the job collector to fail for some users no longer occurs. This issue occurred when the user attempted to filter jobs or job categories with a string that included a single quote character (') in the title.

Alerts

• The Alerts pane now retains your column sort selection when you return to the pane after visiting another page, as when investigating an individual alert.
• SQL Diagnostic Manager now sends an alert when a cluster failover occurs even when the server appears as offline in the preceding refresh of the SQLdm Collection Service. Previously, this situation would not trigger a cluster failover alert.
• The Session Tempdb Space Usage (MB) alert now triggers based on the Total User Space Used and no longer includes the Total Internal Space Used in the calculation. This update fixes an issue where users received an alert that shows a tempdb session using more space than the entire size of tempdb.
• The Cluster Failover alert no longer displays a timestamp of 1-1-1900 when an event triggers an alert.
• The Unsubscribed Transactions alert now displays the resulting time in hours, minutes, and seconds for easier comprehension.
• This release fixes an issue that caused some users to receive alerts stating that the data files are over 1000.00% full.
• Users no longer receive multiple email messages for the same alert.

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