FIX: Out of Memory or Significant Delay Occurs When You Expand a Cube or Edit a Dimension in Analysis Manager (322911)

SYMPTOMS

If a cube contains a large number of partitions and several designed aggregations for the partitions, the edit of a shared dimension or expansion of a cube node to list all the partitions may take several minutes, or longer. During the delay, the CPU utilization is high for the MMC.exe process and the memory usage steadily increases. You may experience out of memory errors in situations where the number of partitions and aggregations is extremely high.

CAUSE

The Microsoft Decision Support Objects (DSO) library, used by Analysis Manager, reads the meta data information for Analysis Services objects from the Analysis Services repository. When you expand a cube node in Analysis Manager, the MDStores collection for the partitions of the cube is populated together with all other children of the cube in the DSO object model. This includes the aggregations collection for each partition in the cube. The time and the memory the computer must have to populate the collection of partitions, and their associated aggregations, increases with the number of partitions in the cube and the number of aggregations in each partition. This update reduces how much memory is used and the time that it takes to parse and store the partitions and aggregations.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

290211 INF: How To Obtain the Latest SQL Server 2000 Service Pack

NOTE: The following hotfix was created before the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3.

The English version of this fix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

 
   Date        Time     Version         Size              File name
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   04/29/2002   23:40       8.0.616.0   1,368,656 bytes   Msdmine.dll
   04/29/2002   23:40       8.0.0.616   4,047,424 bytes   Msmddo80.dll
   04/29/2002   23:40       8.0.0.616   1,008,192 bytes   Msmdgd80.dll
   04/29/2002   23:40       8.0.0.616   9,613,888 bytes   Msmdsgn80.dll
   04/29/2002   23:16       8.0.616.0   1,774,148 bytes   Msmdsrv.exe
   04/18/2001   01:23   2000.80.382.0     815,676 bytes   Sqldata.dll
   04/29/2002   23:40   2000.80.534.0     590,396 bytes   Sqlsort.dll