MDX: Calculating difference value based on user selected years
I'm not confident with MDX. What I need is an MDX expression which is calculating Average Growth Rate.Following example: The user selects four years from time dimension (2013 - 2016) in an Excel...
View Articleis there a way to delete facts from a cube?
Hi. I read the post at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlanalysisservices/thread/d46a292a-9f1e-4682-a7aa-e3cd99b97f6b but am not convinced.We run std 2008 (there is no partitioning in...
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Removing duplicates in Dimension
Hi, I have created one Dimension that is parent-child dimension, it contains duplicates and the hierarchy of the dimension is correct. But my problem is to eliminate that duplicates from that Dimension.
View ArticleHandling different Time Zones
I have SSAS 2008 with sql server 2005 database as a source. Currently, we store all dates in UTC time and use system generated Time dimension in the cube.Up until recently the granularity of a day was...
View Articleupdating fact table
what are the different ways to update the fact table in real time scenarios
View ArticleHow calculate inside the measures
Having salesamount and diff ( salesamount-totalcost) I would like in a pivot table the forward value: %onAmount ( diff/salesamount) and %onCost (diff/totalcost). I tried to make a newnamedcalculation...
View ArticleHow to add a data source into a project created using DMX
Hi All,My objective is to add a data source into a project created using DMX. From a video tutorial, it asks you to open the solution file of the project (created in DMX) and add the data source from...
View Articlessas
is there any option to hide "ALL" level Other than by setting ISAGGREGRATABLE property to false?
View ArticleDimension and measure group relations not reflecting in cube
Hi,We have working cube on SSAS. Now we need to add new measure in existing measure group and need to create relationship with existing dimension table. I have added new column in view which i'm using...
View ArticleErrors in the OLAP storage engine: The process operation ended because the...
Hi AllNOTE: This issue refers to my recent post on this forum, Slina suggested a way to get rid of NULL values , but didn't take that path yet.I've got below error when processing a cube. ( SQl Server...
View Articlecalculation with first day of the year.
I'm having a measures defined on a yearly level (connected to the 1st january of each year).I'm having a calculation which defines a result (ratio) for each day (lowest grain)Now I want to multiply...
View ArticleMDX ebook
never was able to understand MDX properly. Can anyone suggest a good MDX book that would help me learn MDX??ThanksSinu Joseph
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Semi-additive measure requires a time dimension?!
Hello Friends, I have a simple table like below And in my cude, not having ay other dimensions, I use "avgForChildren" on yhe measure "score" other than sum. However, it reports to me "Semi-additive...
View ArticleSet ASSP Drillthrough action as default action in cube
Hi there,I have created drill through action using ASSP store procedure which works as desired.Now, I want to set this newly created action as default action of cube which invokes in excel after...
View Articleconditional format for simple measure
Hi AllI need to add $ or the euro sign to measure value depending on current measure of the currency dimension.I can write an iif() expression at the format_string clause of a calculated measure of...
View ArticleHow to create date dimension and create measure?
Hi All,I need to create a cube from an existing db.Please advise how to create a Date (Year, Month, Day) dimension for plan_date and actual_date.(not allowed to alter or make new table on the remote...
View ArticleWhat is Aggregation ? and What is Aggregations? what are the differences...
Dear Experts,I faced an interview question as mentioned below. Please answer to the question. What is Aggregation ? and What is Aggregations? what are the differences between Aggregation and...
View ArticleLoad Balancing/Scaling Out SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services
Hi All,I am working on putting a high-available and/or scale-out deployment for SSAS. I am using SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition. Although, I know that SQL Server doesn't provide load-balancing...
View ArticleSSAS dynamaic processing by partition
what is the best way to process cubes by partition dyanamically as data comes in on an incremental basis,please guide.nik
View ArticleIs it possible to call a SQL Function from a MDX calculated member ?
Im trying to access a relational lookup table for a dimension value in a query against a cube. Cube schema is not in my hands.Is this possible ?How ?
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