Active Queries View
The Active Queries view provides relevant information about active queries on your environment. You can find the following information:
- Account / User Name that started a query
- Session SPID
- Query's command text
- Start and end time of the query
- Elapsed time in milliseconds
- CPU Time
- Reads and writes in kb.
Configuring Active Queries view
To change the settings of Query activity data collection click Configuration on the Active Queries screen.The Configuration settings allow you to configure the frecuency of data collection, collect data from all queries or from poorly performing queries, set the location of log files, and set time periods for historical data retention.
Advanced Query monitoring
Use the Advanced Query monitoring option to determine the frequency of data collection.
Enabled: SQL BI collects query data constantly.
Disabled: SQL BI only collects query data at the time of collection using the current query data collection method.
When you enable this option, active query data collection is constant. If you disable Advanced Query Monitoring, SQL BI only collects active queries data at the time of collection.
Poorly performing queries
When you select this option IDERA SQL BIM only collects information on queries that cross a set threshold. You can set the following thresholds:
| Duration in milliseconds | Set a time in milliseconds after which a query is considered poorly performing. |
| CPU time in milliseconds | How much time a query uses CPU. |
| Rows Scanned in #rows | The number of rows a query reads. |
Retention period
You can use this settings to determine for how long IDERA SQL BIM retains historical data for query monitoring.
Location of log files
This is the path where IDERA SQL BIM stores log files, the default path is the same as the SSAS log files location. to set another path use the UNC format for example \\<server name>\c$\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSAS12.MSSQLSERVER\OLAP\Log. Make sure that the account used for data collection has permissions for accessing and writing to the log files directory.