Automating SSAS Dump Collections using SQLDumper.exe

Last year I was involved with standing up an Analysis Services Scale-Out Query Server architecture to handle a heavy concurrent user load. Unfortunately, we didn't get around to stress-testing the system until a few months later and we uncovered an issue requiring escalation to Microsoft. In this post, I'll share a few details about the issue and then focus on a quick and dirty method for automating dump file generation.