No BIDS and Analysis Template in My Visual Studio 2008
I just installed Visual Studio Professional, and I cannot find Business Intelligence Projects and I cannot find the Analysis Services Project Template. Mind you I have SQL Server 2012. What's wrong,...
View ArticleWhy there are missing records in the cube for customers with records in the...
--- Records exist in fact table select * from Fact_Sales Where period_year = '2012008' AND Customerid = '700106201' --- Records exist in the dimension tabletable select * from dim_Customers...
View ArticleMDX Top 10 high order value customers that did not order in last 6 months
Hi All, Need help with finding top 10 high value customers that are idle for the last 6 months i.e no orders created. I am trying to use topcount and parallelperiod, but with no luck. Can anyone show...
View Articlecustomer dimension
we have a customer dimension, wht is the best way to model the dimension because the names change continuosly , same with the physicain where hospitals merge and things like that happen, data is geting...
View ArticleNeed help in MDX
Hi, I have table with schema shown below.the item is valid b/w from and todates ValidFrom unitsOrdered validto ------------------------------------ Jan-07 100 Jan-08 Feb-07 20 Feb-08...
View ArticleMissing records in the Measure Group
I have records in my measure group 1 where the link (foreign key) to another measure group2/dimension is null sometimes. When I process the cube, measure group 1 is not bringing those records that have...
View ArticleYears of Service Calculation
I have an employee transaction dimension that is setup like the following EmpTranID EmpID TranDate Status 1 1 1/1/2000 Hire 2 1 1/1/2004 Pay Rate 3 1 1/1/2005 Pay Rate 4 1 6/1/2005 Termination 5 1...
View ArticleMDX taking long time to process
Hi, I have a query that I need to calculate YTD by each fiscalPeriod of the FiscalYear. When I crossjoin with the fiscalPeriods , the query takes as long as 3 mins to execute which is unacceptable. The...
View ArticleDynamically Process Multiple Partitions in SSIS
I'm currently trying to put together an SSIS package that will dynamically process multiple partitions at once. I have no problems determining which partitions need processed and currently I'm using...
View ArticleMDX help in showing attribute members of one dimension given the restriction...
Hi All, I need help with writing an equivalent MDX with the following scenario: if the user picks a fiscal year (from DimDate) , I return to them the employees (from DimEmployee) who were involved in...
View ArticleAggregating calculated measures
Hello, I'm having trouble getting a calculated measure to aggregate properly. It's defined as: [Measure A] x [Measure Percent] where [Measure Percent] is only defined where we have both [Dimension X]...
View ArticleXML for Analysis Parser; The restriction value - sql server 2005 with Excel...
Trying to refresh an existing pivot table that is connected to Analysis Services Sql Server 2005 database. My excel 2010 gets the eroor:\ XML for Analysis parser: The restriction value provided by...
View ArticleOrganization hierarchy over time
I have a database where we collect a headcount of people by organization each month. I was trying to put together a simple cube to display the data but I cannot get the org parent-child dimension to...
View ArticleLooking for info on how SSAS read the aggregation files?
Hi, I want to know how SSAS reads the aggregation files. I'm suffering performance issue because the disks are slow. I partition per month, each partition contains 2.5Gb of data. I add aggregation...
View Articlehow to extract the year and month from the dimension?
how to get month and year out of certain dimension... for example [Date].[Calendar].&[2003]&[9], the result will show Year Month ------------------- 2003 9 Thanks.
View ArticleNamed Set in SSAS for from and To Dates.
Hi, I need to create the NAMED SETS in SSAS 2008 from retriving the 3 previous weeks, current week, 3 next week.. Can any one help.. If select 9 th week then the out put must be...
View ArticleRounding decimal number to nearest whole number in SSAS
How to round a number to a next higher whole number if its > X.5 or to lower whole number if its < X.5 How can this be achieved in SSAS? Plz help...
View Articleuse single cube with multiple user using vss
Hi Friends I'm working on ssas cube and my colleague also working on the same cube. i need to work to this single cube . i guess i can use VSS for this. can you please guide me how can i use single...
View ArticleDrill through action in 2008 R2 for Calculated Member connecting to...
Hi All, Is it at all possible to connect relational DB tables from Cube calculated member to achieve more detail analysis. The Relational DB tables contain unaggregated data from where we want to get...
View ArticleCannot return SUM as a calculated measure based on member from query
Apologies for the perhaps obvious solution to this, but I'm very new to MDX and OLAPs and really trying to find my way. I have a cube that has a measure dimension that derives average measures....
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