Processing Cube With Mix of English and Chinese/Japanese characters
I have a cube using a SQL Server 2008R2 database as its data source. All of the text fields in the database are configured as either NVARCHAR or NCHAR data types. The table has a mix of English and...
View ArticleTabular Data model + remote partition support
We are seriously considering use of Tabular Data model for our reporting application(that currently uses MOLAP cubes). MOLAP cubes today vary between 75-250G, i have following questions regarding...
View ArticleControlling a Drilldown Action in VS 2010
For simplicity sake, let's say I have a fact table that only has three records in it for the same employee. In the cube I've created a measure to do a distinct count on employees in the fact table, so...
View ArticleImplementing Weighted KPIs in SSAS
I have a case where the KPI target for each product in terms of sold quantity is different. So for example the MinTargetQTY for product1 is 100 and the for product2 is 20. Now when calculating the KPI...
View ArticleSSAS & MDX
How can one use MDX Scripts within the Calculated Members of SSAS? How can I convert the following script for use in a SSAS Calculated member - NON EMPTY {[Measures].[Pt Discharge Count]} ON...
View ArticleSQL server 2008 r2 analysis migration to SQL server 2012.
Hi All, I have migrated SQL server 2008 r2 to SQL server 2012 successfully and also migrated reporting services but i have some dowbt about analysis services. can anybody give me a proper step that i...
View ArticleAutomate Create Database SSAS XMLA Script using SSIS
Hi All, Can any one reply back with with a good automation process to achieve this scenario, Scenario: When the cube processing fails in UAT server we manually take a create data base script from SSAS...
View Article"Error infinite recursion detected" in MDX, but, Excel works!
Hi I have the following calculated member called [All In Rate]. If I use Excel to connect to the Cube, then I get the correct value appearing. However, if I try to use MDX (see second script), I get...
View ArticleHow to eliminate Sub-query "side effect" in Pivot table
Hi All, I found that my Excel 2007 Pivot table report generates sub-query with double From statement. If I use a filter on the Budget Item (Budget Item is a set/group of Projects), it impacts my...
View ArticleSlowly changing fact, or other solution & implementing in SSAS
Currenty I am working on one design which require data representation based on as on date. Example Trade table has attributes (these attribute has corresponding dimensions) Tradedate Client Portfolio...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 SSAS Cube - unable to restrict dimension members
Hello, I have a cube (SQL Server 2008 R2) with multiple business units. Each unit sells unique items. BusinessUnit is a cube dimension; also all the other cube dimensions (including Item dimension)...
View ArticleMeasure Level Security and Calculations
I'm working on implementing measure level security and am looking for a simple way to implement it. I've created a role called "Project Managers", and have made a domain group a member of the role....
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Help with creating a measure in a cube for date range
Hi, it's been a while since I've developed an SSAS cube but I have the following requirement. Simplified (in reality there are lots more dimensions) we have a dataset as below which tracks change...
View ArticleGeneric dimension reference
Is there a way to replace [Date].[Month] with something more generic in this statement? [Date].[Month].CurrentMember IS [Date].[Month].[All] Because in a future I don't really know what dimensions user...
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Count based on a Filter Criteria
Hi, I need to create a MDX query to count the number of quarters that have values. The criteria is the following as is shown in the picture below: 1. for a company and a currency code 2. get the last 8...
View ArticleSSAS & Named Sets
I have created a named set and have processed the cube with out errors, However the Named Set isn't available in the Browser. Please help!Thanks Mr Q
View ArticleUsing .NET 4 assemblies with Analysis Services 2008
Is it possible to register .NET 4 assemblies as Analysis Services 2008 assemblies? We'd like to upgrade out application to .NET 4 as soon as possible, but currently we can't as .NET 3.5 is the maximum...
View ArticleAggregate + Case MDX query performance issue
When i drag two dims with the measure down time the query works fine , when add another dim to the query the query freezes on excel and it is slow on the cube side . any help to enhance performance ?...
View ArticleSSAS Calculated Member - getting a count of rows displayed
I am trying to create a calculated member in SSAS in the BIDS UI. This is what the data looks like: Month Available Sept Sept 5 1 Sept 6 0 Sept 7 0 Oct Oct 1 1 Oct 2...
View ArticleDrill-Through action for ssas cube in Excel 2008 for single row display
I have applied the drill-through action to a cube whose data is pulled into excel sheet. From what i understand drill through action is used to see the granularity of a particular cell. But when i...
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