Monitoring Enhancements

SQL Server 2014 also introduces a few new dynamic management views (DMVs) and enhancements to existing DMVs. These have mostly been in support of Availability Groups and managing the lock priority of online operations but have also added some additional columns to several other DMVs. The DMV enhancements include:

Image sys.xml_indexes—Includes 3 new columns: xml_index_type, xml_index_type_description, and path_id.

Image sys.dm_exec_query_profiles—New DMV to monitor real time query progress while a query is in execution.

sys.column_store_row_groups ...

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