Dynamic management views expose what a server is doing right now. Fabric warehouses offer sys.dm_exec_requests and similar views for connections, sessions and active requests; through XMLA, semantic models provide Analysis Services DMVs, except ones requiring server admin rights.
Also called dynamic management view.
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Terms in this definition
- Analysis Services
VertiPaq, Microsoft's in-memory analytics engine, sits underneath every Power BI semantic model and is likewise available as Azure Analysis Services or SQL Server Analysis Services. Tools connect to it over XMLA, using its client libraries.