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This build includes many fixed issues, including the following updates from previous releases.

10.3 New features

• SQL Diagnostic Manager is able to monitor SQL Server 2017 instances running on Windows or Linux operating systems.
• SQL Diagnostic Manager now includes a new operator security role.
• This release include new grooming and aggregation options for long term forecasting metrics for disks, databases, and tables.

10.3 Fixed Issues

Alerts

SQLDM-28824 SQL Diagnostic Manager now correctly imports alert templates.

SQLDM-28940 The alert suppression threshold now correctly works in SQL Diagnostic Manager.

SQLDM Desktop Client

SQLDM-28844 An unhandled exception is no longer being encountered when accessing the Queries tab in the SQL Diagnostic Manager Desktop Client.

Amazon RDS

SQLDM-28932 When monitoring an Amazon RDS SQL Server instance, SQL Diagnostic Manager is no longer encountering the ‘The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object 'xp_fixeddrives', database 'mssqlsystemresource', schema 'sys'’ exception.

Services

SQLDM-28957 The SQLdm Management Service is no longer encountering issues when reading metric threshold settings from the repository database.

Custom Counters

SQLDM-29015 SQL Diagnostic Manager is no longer reporting the error: "Unable to connect to SQL Instance - Custom counters file view is out of memory"

10.2.3 New Features

No new features for this version.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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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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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No new features

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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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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• There are no longer any issues causing data to populate slowly and timeout messages when accessing the Tables & Indexes view.

Custom Counters

• Monitored SQL Server instances now remain linked to custom counters when setting maintenance mode with PowerShell.

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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.
  

Alerts

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Users no longer receive the error message, "An error occurred while retrieving data for this report. Additional information: Invalid Column name. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 207)," when attempting to run a custom report.
• An issue causing the Top Queries report to appear empty when the user selected a Custom Range older than seven days no longer occurs.

Custom Counters

• An issue causing some users to receive an error message when attempting to modify an existing custom counter no longer occurs.

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