SSAS fill missing gaps
Lets say I have a fact table like this: ID Date Amount1 Jan2012 1001 Feb2012 1101 April2012 150 and a dimension dimDate that contains all months in 2012. When browsing my cube I see...
View ArticleBest practices for scheduled cube processing (SSAS 2008 Standard Ed.)
Hi there, I have setup a simple SSIS package that processes the cube and deployed it to SQL Server 2008 Standard on a 30 minute schedule. I'm wondering what the best practices are in this case. These...
View ArticleSSAS Cube running from thrid party tool ( MDX ) ?
Team , I have a solution where SSAS cubes are getting processed via a third party tool .While browsing the cube from application tool ..i found these pieces in SQL Trace <TOLAPGridSerializer>...
View ArticleCompare dimension to values and highlight closest match.
Hi, I need to highlight the closest values of the Weighted Average to the dimension values, possibly hide the rest. Tried in scope and as a calculate member. any help would be appreciated. WAverage is...
View ArticleExtracting data from SSAS cube into a table using SSIS
Hi, I was trying to extract data from an SSAS cube into a relational table, basically create a fact table out of the cube, where I'd have the dimension's natural keys and the measure values. I tried...
View ArticleUser Multi Select on Excel and opening balances
Hi I've got a calculated member that provides and opening asset. If the user selects member on the month level, then that is what he gets, if he's on the year level then it returns January's opening...
View ArticleA duplicate attribute key has been found when processing
Hi When I process one of my dimensions it fails and I get the following error: Errors in the OLAP storage engine: A duplicate attribute key has been found when processing: Table: 'Customers', Column:...
View Articlecube's browser shows no data unless show empty cells is chosen - but excel...
Hey Cube's browser (vs2008 - sql server 2008 r2) demands the show empty cells to be chosen in order to show UN empty data...This may be explained by the fact that all cube's data is calculated in...
View ArticleDrillthrough action mdx condition newbie question
I am in the middle of learning SASS, and MDX has turned out to be a huge nut for me to crack. I want to implement a drillthrough action which is shown only when the Calendar year is 2005. (Just for the...
View Articlescope
Hi, I'm learning MDX and I can't scope statement work. What I did, I entered here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms145989.aspx pasted the example from that article to my SSMS and tried to run...
View ArticleCalculated member treats NULL's as zeros.
Hi there, I'm trying to make a calculated member to display the result of dividing one value by another which shows the variance percentage between the [Measure Volume Actual] and [Measure Volume Plan]...
View ArticleSSAS Dimension Sorting While Browsing In Excel
Hello, I would like to use a defined sorting for dimension name. For example If I have Dimensions by name A,B,C than I would like to see these dimensions while browsing cube in the order of B,C,A. Just...
View ArticlePercentage Calculation
Hi All, I am using the following MDX to get the Pecentage Sales, which works for all the dimensions. But if I use this measure for two dimensions at the same time, it doesn't work. For example, if I...
View Articleinsert column into every dimension attribute programatically
I have just found out that I need to insert a new column (called Franchise) into every dimension attribute (key columns collection). I reckon that there are about 1000 changes to make. Does anyone know...
View ArticleMDX Queries
Hi, I am very new to SSAS and i need help populating a drop down list box using an MDX query. eg i would like the member properties to appear in the box.
View ArticleFREEZE : pb with filter in Excel/SSRS
Hi all, I have a freeze statement in the calculation of the cube. This freezes a highest level of an hierarchy : FREEZE([Group].[group hierachy].[Top level].&[1]); Then I am using a scope...
View ArticleConnecting to SSAS via IIS using msmdpump.dll
Has anyone actually got the msmdpump.dll to work as it should? Basically I'm trying to connect from server A (my webserver) to server B (my SSAS server), on server A I have installed/configured the...
View ArticleVS 2010 Tabular Project, SQL 2012, Connection Issues
All: I am using a dedicated machine for tutorial purposes for SAL 2012, the Tabular SSAS model, and PowerView. The Hyper-V image as the following installed: * Windows Server 2008 R2, running as a...
View Articlessas datapump in 2003 server
Hi, I have set up the ssas pump in xp successfully.But when i am trying the same with the 2003 server (64),it is giving me error. When i am accessing the url http://localhost/olap/msmdpump.dll it is...
View ArticleIs it possible to create a cluster for SQL server analysis services alone...
Hi , We can create an SQL cluster (clustered DBA engine) – no question about it. Is it possible to create a cluster for SQL server analysis services alone, without the DB engine, only SSAS alone .. BR...
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