Page History

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

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

10.1.1 New features

SQL Diagnostic Manager allows you to launch SQL Workload Analysis in context of your monitored server from the desktop console and the IDERA Dashboard. For more information, see Launch SQL Workload Analysis.

10.1.1 Fixed issues

Reports

The Transaction Log Statistics report is no longer showing erroneous used size values.

The Disk Space History report is no longer encountering the 'String or binary data would be truncated' error.

Query Monitor

Query Monitor is no longer reporting a captured stored procedure as both a SQL Batch and a Stored Procedure when Query Monitor is configured to collect queries using Extended Events.

Query monitor is no longer capturing queries that do not meet threshold definitions.

Procedure Cache

SQLDM is no longer having issues when accessing to the Procedure Cache tab.

SQL Server CPU Usage (Percent)

SQLDM is no longer reported inflated values for the SQL Server CPU Usage (Percent) metric on monitored instances running on systems with hyper-threaded CPU.

Server Log file

The IDERA Dashboard is no longer recording the user login and password in the server.log file.

Cloud instances

SQLDM is no longer encountering the 'Read login mode failed:System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array' error while attempting to retrieve live data from a monitored instance running on Amazon EC2.

Blocked Sessions Graphs

The Blocked Sessions graphs report correctly the number of deadlocks that were detected by SQLDM.

Prescriptive Analysis

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.

10.1 New features

Health Index Calculation

...

• An issue preventing Query Waits from being retrieved historically no longer occurs.

Query Monitor

• 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.
  

...

• Anchor
  DE45058 DE45058

  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

• Anchor
  DE44878 DE44878

  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.

...

• Anchor
  DE41293 DE41293

  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

• Anchor
  DE40847 DE40847

  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.

• Anchor
  DE43965 DE43965

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

• Anchor
  DE43963 DE43963

  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.

• Anchor
  DE43915 DE43915

  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.

...

SQL Diagnostic Manager Help (User Guide and Release Notes) is now wiki-hosted and available at wiki.idera.com > SQL Diagnostic Manager. 

 9.0 Fixed issues

Query Monitor

• Anchor
  DE42595 DE42595

  An issue preventing users from enabling the Query Monitor in monitored SQL Server 2000 instances no longer occurs.

...

• Anchor
  DE3932 DE3932

  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

• Anchor
  DE41690 DE41690

  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.

Reports

•  

  Anchor
  DE41961 DE41961

  An issue preventing users from running the Disk Details report of the Resources analysis reports no longer occurs.

...

• 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.

...

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

Reports

• An issue preventing the Top Queries report to deploy correctly into a Microsoft Reporting Services Server no longer occurs.
• This release fixes an issue where a custom report was deployed into the Microsoft Reporting Services Server instead of the selected report in SQL Diagnostic Manager with a similar name.

...

• 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.

Reports

• This release fixes an issue impeding the VM Statistics report to display correctly.
• An issue preventing users from exporting the Blocking Sessions report in XML no longer occurs.
• An issue preventing the CPU Statistics report to display correctly when being deployed to the Microsoft Reporting Services no longer occurs.

...

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.

...

An issue causing an unknown value in the User/Schema column of the Procedure Cache view no longer occurs.

Reports

An issue preventing users from running the Alert History Report after deployment to Reporting Services no longer occurs.

...

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

...

• 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.

Reports

• The Server Summary report now correctly displays statistics graphs and grids even when the results include no data for that interval.
• The Server Statistics report now consistently applies the UTC offset to both servers when using the report to compare two servers.

...

• 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.

Reports

• SQL Diagnostic Manager no longer displays the message, "Item with the same key has already been added," when some users attempt to run the Top tables by Growth or Top Tables by Fragmentation report.
• Users can now select the time of day in all SQL Diagnostic Manager reports by using the Start Hours and End Hours fields.

...

• 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.

Reports

• Users who attempt to schedule email notifications for some reports no longer receive an error message at the end of the wizard.
• Generation of the Top Databases report is improved, preventing the report from suffering a time out because of the long load time.
• Disk Details report users no longer receive an exception message when attempting to run the report with the Drive Name field selection of All Drives.

...

• 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.

Reports

• 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.

...